And "The Friendly Cow."
MC Ward wrote:
> I've been surprised by how many people feel they've
> outgrown Housman, so I took a little while this
> morning to renew my own loving acquaintance with his
> "cherries hung with snow," his "blood's a rover; /
> Breath's a ware that will not keep," his hilarious
> paeon to alcoholism, "Terence, This is Stupid
> Stuff"--and found myself succumbing to him all over
> again.
>
> In fact, beyond some mild embarrassment over my
> continuing love for Edna St. Vincent Millay, I cannot
> think of a single poet or work I've outgrown apart
> from Robert Louis Stevenson's _Child's Garden of
> Verses_. And even there, I rememeber "The Swing" as if
> I were still going on eight, and higher.
>
> Candice
>
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Tad Richards
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