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Subject: american poetry
Category: Reference, Education and News
Asked by: motherapples-ga
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Posted: 19 Aug 2003 17:35 PDT
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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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Subject: Re: american poetry
Answered By: juggler-ga on 19 Aug 2003 19:46 PDT
Rated:5 out of 5 stars
 
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 rated this answer:5 out of 5 stars
very fast. Thinking about this poem fort wenty years. thnx

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