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american poetry
Category: Reference, Education and News Asked by: motherapples-ga List Price: $10.00 |
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19 Aug 2003 17:35 PDT
Expires: 18 Sep 2003 17:35 PDT Question ID: 246665 |
20th century american poem eulogizing a dead plumber.His coronet was the "pride of Cheatham's prize brass band". During the funeral,"somewhere a cellar begins to flood..." Title of poem and author. |
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Re: american poetry
Answered By: juggler-ga on 19 Aug 2003 19:46 PDT Rated: |
Hello. ELEGY FOR ALFRED HUBBARD BY TONY CONNOR Complete text at: http://washington.uwc.edu/faculty/cbigler/102ft5.htm Here are the stanzas that contain the lines you remember. .... tools, workshop, cart, and cornet (pride of Cheetham Prize Brass Band), and there's his mourning widow, Janet stood at the gate he'd promised to mend. ... In St. Mark's church, whose dismal tower he pointed and painted when a lad, they will sing his praises amidst flowers while, somewhere, a cellar starts to flood, .... source: University of Wisconsin http://washington.uwc.edu/faculty/cbigler/102ft5.htm search strategy: "somewhere a cellar" I hope this helps. |
motherapples-ga
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very fast. Thinking about this poem fort wenty years. thnx |
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