Thanks Lawrence. I agree, it was the singing & the songs...
And, well, that's the line that started it, although that's not always an excuse...
Doug
On Jan 30, 2014, at 8:12 AM, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> but the first line itself sings
> and it is hardly an asemic singing but an important element of the factual
> I don't think Canadian vowels are so different to mine in this
> and the pattern of vowels is quite different but just as pleasing in the
> second line
> it was the singing itself that first drew me to Seeger
>
> L
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> On 29 January 2014 20:33, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Like this too, Doug. Wonder however whether opening line with its clever
>> s's should remain. The singing is celebrated in the third and fourth lines.
>> Could then begin on 'unafraid'.
>>
>> Bill
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>>> On 30 Jan 2014, at 3:23 am, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
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>>> songs sung with sangfroid
>>> unafraid on so many barricades
>>> barring none from joining the chorus
>>> he sang joy & justice for self & everyone
>>> that freedom ring a/rising
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>>> Swept snow, Li Po,
>>> by dawn's 40-watt moon
>>> to the road that hies to office
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Latest books:
Continuations & Continuations 2 (with Sheila E Murphy)
http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=962
Recording Dates
(Rubicon Press)
Swept snow, Li Po,
by dawn’s 40-watt moon
to the road that hies to office
away from home.
Lorine Niedecker
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