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Please excuse me as you always did, with so much love, forgive
That I didn't listen more to you when you were still alive.47 lines, 15 comments, on Dec 28 2:49 AM 2003. In Love
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An' wot I've told yer, tho' legend, is dead true fer a starter,
RH,MM, an' the Merrie Men lived 'app'ly ever arter. -
It proves that courage and determination have their way.
For there's lots of little Tuts and Hin-es running round today! -
Now Robin 'ood w'rn't very well.
Bin sinkin' fast f'r days.87 lines, 18 comments, on Feb 8 11:52 PM 2004. In Humor -
An' wot I've told yer, tho' legend, is dead true fer a starter.
RH, MM an' Merrie Men lived 'app'ly ever arter.40 lines, 13 comments, on May 11 2:18 AM 2004. In Humor -
Pray, make the Greeks their promise hold
And keep my people free. -
"David Peter" quoth HUGH WYLES, "As thou sayest, so let it be;
I'll summon forth my "Harem" and we'll straighten out AP.85 lines, 16 comments, on May 29 4:36 AM 2004. In Humor, Contemporary -
So that's my tale that I've just told
Of the Man from "Double Corner". -
He professed his love for her and, as he was no simpleton,
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The treacherous Japanese attack
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In their ships, in the night, from the North;
bold adventurers, callous and tough,119 lines, 10 comments, on Sep 19 6:35 PM 2004. In History
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You can see her in her chariot with her daughters on each side.
She’s a symbol of brave womanhood and sturdy british pride.115 lines, 12 comments, on Oct 16 10:21 PM 2004. In History
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And, should you pass along the cliffs of Glora, say a prayer
For Finola and her brothers, those poor children of King Lir. -
To lose both sons like that would cause the hardest heart to bleed
And especially when their two lives were so brief. -
It runs from Solway Firth in West, past Carlisle as it’s known
To the River Tyne, (Newcastle) in the East.169 lines, 10 comments, on Dec 27 1:27 PM 2004. In History
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“If music be the food of love, play on” the Great Bard said
and indeed his words are worthy of belief. -
Darkest the Dawn before my execution.
The fearful mind, the faltering resolution. -
I do hope all my Favourites will stop and read this ballad
for each of you is mentioned here - a bit like a tossed salad!! -
Oh! Neuschwanstein, so fair, so bold,
what tales canst thou relate of old!!91 lines, 16 comments, on Apr 1 1:56 AM 2005. In History
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Of the three dream-castles that he built, Linderhof in Graswang seated,
built with loving care and artistry, was the only one completed. -
from the work the King provided, every man in his own right,
standards of German artistry reached unprecedented height.267 lines, 18 comments, on Apr 13 3:13 PM 2005. In History
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I often feel that Ludwig’s spirit, hovering it seems,
would say “Tread softly, visitor! You tread upon my dreams.” -
Let all those Neo-Nazi fools
think on the inevitable rules. -
Let none of us who follow put from mind these truths so plain,
that those who died in agony shall not have died in vain. -
How Hugh and his hardy harem
Saved the rhymes in days of old. -
it can’t in any way detract, in deed or history,
from the valour and endurance of that brave B Company. -
False Telramund this spotless maid has named,
Demanding of the King that she be banished.342 lines, 23 comments, on Jun 22 5:14 AM 2005. In Opera
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The knights, deprived, have lost their strength and now grow listless rather;
yet on this day, Good Friday, the king should honour his d156 lines, 5 comments, on Jun 24 2:03 PM 2005. In Opera
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The sunlight strikes Valhalla’s walls dispersing all the gloom;
Loge watches them ironically as they hasten to their doom.81 lines, 9 comments, on Jun 27 1:54 PM 2005. In Other
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Wotan has sired on Erda, the Earth-mother, daughters nine
as Valkyries. Fair Brunnhilde is his favourite of the line.108 lines, 8 comments, on Jun 29 2:21 PM 2005. In Other
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The years have passed, Sieglinde died in childbirth and her son,
young Siegfried, reared by Mime, is now strong and fully grown. -
Valhalla and the heavens are consumed in flames above.
The order of the gods has passed, the World redeemed by love. -
In the Pharaoh’s Memphis palace the High Priest of Isis stands.
He foretells that Ethiopians will invade Egyptian lands. -
The grateful nation honours heaped on Nelson’s widowed wife,
but Emma Hamilton ignored until her end of life.119 lines, 30 comments, on Jul 20 6:10 PM 2005. In Other
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His dying wish that England should take her into its ward,
in spite of her repeated pleas, was steadily ignored.121 lines, 9 comments, on Jul 24 2:43 PM 2005. In Other
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Tamara would seductively upon her couch recline,
allowing the spell to work that she infused into the wine. -
In his study, ageing Faust is contemplating suicide.
Lamenting his lost years, he hears a group of youths outside. -
My wife’s convinced I’m brilliant (She’s extremely erudite.)
Her opinions are intelligent (we hardly ever fight!). -
Hear now a story strange of woman who, deceived in love,
swore vengeance on the whole male race and every man thereof. -
I hope that their attempts to change our flag will come to grief
so our honoured “Jack and Stars” will still prevail through joy or tears. -
As an anthem it “inspires the heart and serves to elevate us”
for both words and tune rank high among the anthems of this World. -
Our present government is what we voters might expect;
always ‘changing’ things to make us seem “politic’ly correct”. -
Of the main embalming fluids first invented by the Druids
MOXIE was preferred by all the Ramesses. -
T'was the night before Christmas
an’, Boy! Wot a sight! -
Another of Hugh's horrifying Huguelot Epics.
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T’was the night before Christmas and, down at the pub,
(which Santa prefers to the gentlemen’s club),77 lines, 12 comments, on Nov 24 2:27 PM 2005. In Adult humor
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the Nippon empire, four years later, met apocalypse.
Unconditional surrender followed lost ascendancy. -
City of Canterbury Plains,
worldwide as “The Garden City” known;107 lines, 17 comments, on Dec 27 8:04 PM 2005. In Other
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King Henry the Eighth as a sire was not great,
in fact he was really quite bad. -
All who saw her loved her madly,
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We find ourselves in India in the days of British Raj.
It is dawn - a shady garden with a river nearby, flowing past a temple. -
We are in Ceylon, in ancient times, in a seaside town of old
where superstitious fisher-folk live by a rocky shore. -
The setting is the hamlet of Hochstoff, high in the alps of the upper Austrian Tyrol
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“For all his beauty, human passion and inconstant love,
may God forgive and take his precious soul to Heaven above.” -
Amid steep wooded slopes and lofty pines
the Castle Huguelot stands, strong and proud.22 lines, 27 comments, on Feb 12 1:02 PM 2006. In Fantasy
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Alone, Don Jose picks the flower and holds it to his nose,
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In Lillas Pastia’s tavern, Carmen, with two gypsy friends,
Mercedes and Frasquita, enters just as supper ends. -
He leaves with her but warns Carmen that he will soon return
Carmen turns away, her gesture showing total unconcern. -
He throws himself across her body as the crowd comes forward….
“Sirs! It is I who killed her. My Carmen who I adored!” -
The crowd laments, the Ministers predict his life’s now brief,
while Timur and the slave Liu are overcome with grief. -
“I, Altoum, pray to all the gods that Heaven’s Will be done
and that, by dawn tomorrow morning, he will be my son!” -
“No one must sleep tonight in Pekin City under pain
of death and, before morning, must reveal the Stranger’s name.” -
The Herald then announces that the King of Clubs is sad
for the Prince, his son’s, a hypochondriac - and that is bad. -
Ninetta and the Prince get married, happy ever after
and the palace constantly resounds to the Prince’s cheerful laughter! -
Together all five point a doubtful moral, making clearer
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Historically, Freemasonry, as it is known today,
can trace its antecedents a considerable way.153 lines, 12 comments, on Mar 13 3:16 PM 2006. In Other
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Paco gives a sob of horror, Carmela his presence shuns.
She never will forgive him for the damage he has done. -
It’s Easter Sunday morning; people gather in the square.
Santuzza, his abandoned love, awaits Turiddu there. -
Canio strikes him down with mortal blow intended,
then drops his dagger and exclaims: “The comedy is ended!” -
This fine one-act Opera is set in the Chinese quarter of
San Fancisco in the year 1900. -
In the grounds of Dido’s Carthaginian palace can be seen
a crowd of loyal subjects paying homage to their Queen. -
The haunting prelude with its themes, so yearning and obsessive,
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I hope you’ve find this story fun, no priggish soul offending.
As Opera, it’s but one of few that have a happy ending! -
In a barely furnished Paris garret in the Latin part
a poet and a painter are both practicing their art; -
Iago, smarting secretly, on dire revenge is bent;
to bring about Otello’s ruin is his avowed intent. -
The setting is an evidently seldom-peopled room
enshrouded in a permeating atmosphere of gloom. -
“The dead send dreams like that to haunt if we don’t let them find
that peace which they deserve but try to hold them in our mind.” -
the present situation where so many children die
from child abuse may finally abate. -
“Until our hour of death, we praise you Lord in all Your Might,
for blessings you bestow – especially the Gift of Sight!” -
Boobs tend to come in different sizes
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“Keep your mind on where you’re at
and don’t forsake the tit for tat!” -
as one travels round the world and grapples with surprises
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…..and so today, this interest thrives,
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The guns are silent now; they’ve shot
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O’ give me the hush of the native bush
and the cool stream running clear -
‘E was a dinkum kiwi guy
though ‘e was born a Scot. -
so, though we had one year to wait,
roads do converge, however late! -
A tragedy has been revealed today.
Around the river where I daily walk, -
Of six wonders of the ancient world no traces now remain.
Thus Nature bests the mightiest works which man constructs in vain. -
In addition to the Seven Wonders of the ancients’ list,
there are several others which, quite unaccountably, they missed. -
Though not exhaustive, I have tried, with these fourteen selections,
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Dear Amunet, this message is to thank you from the King
for your personal, affectionate and touching invitation; -
At kindergarten I excelled
at play with plasticene. -
O’ God of Nations! Grant release!
Let this dispute and squabble cease! -
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There are of course, two ponds in Beckenham Park,
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Now, just across the Tasman Sea’s a country we call OZ.
It’s really named Australia but we call it OZ becoz…..
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Elea Namatjira was an aborigine,
brought up in the outback of the Northern Territ’ry.
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It’s ANZAC Day when we who live, with bared but unbowed head, / remember those who died for us, the great and glorious dead.
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My granddad is a sorry ghost
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‘Twas Christmas Eve on a cloudy night in 1953. / The Wellington to Auckland overnighter steam express / into the Whangaehu river,
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Napoleon Bonaparte was born in 1769 / in Corsica of Italian family of noble line. / His father, representative to Louis XVI court, / ensure
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In Venice, in the in the year around AD1254, / the wife of one, Niccolo Polo (merchant), proudly bore / a son w
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Born in Bonn, in Germany, in 1769 / Beethoven was the product of a strong artistic line. / His alcoholic father made him practice night and
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Wolfgang Mozart’s father, Leopold, was a leading court musician, / employed by the Archbishop in a fairly high position / at Salzburg where
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Chopin was born in 1810 at Zelazowa Woska / to a Polish mother (upper class) Justyna Krzyzanowska. / His father Nicholas, a Frenchman who b
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Where did those youthful passions go? / The laughter and the pain, / The joys, the adolescent thrills / That never come again? / What happe
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In 1685, within the town of Eisenach, / a boy was born to the family who bore the name of Bach. / From a long line of musicians, he was des
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Why do I write poetry you ask?
Please wait a bit while I consult my Muse.
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in carefully curbing the time that I use
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Congested Auckland motorways and, on the bridge, continue
to cause protracted driver-stress to heart, brain, nerve and sinew.
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There are many tales of bravery
and courage on the sea
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For those of you who never knew,
perhaps I should explain
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Today the tourists flock where few intruders once dared tread
for, in this valley, rested bones of Egypt’s royal dead.
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I understand there are a few who have expressed a wish
to know the fate of Ima Q. since leaving Jellyfish.
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…after careful cogitation, Yem knew what he had to do
to rid himself of all that unwashed, smelly pirate crew. -
We left this stirring story where two topless women sought
by waving shirts, to draw attention from the Argonaut. -
My best gift ever was pre-Christmas in 2003
when my wife Edna turned up with a nearly new PC... -
It seems an explanation by some readers is expected
to clarify what ‘Huguenauties’ means. -
She’ll always have a place within my heart -
for, of all others, she remains my first true Valentine.
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His ship's condemned to roam the storm-swept oceans evermore.
Once every seventh year the sea will cast his ship ashore.264 lines, 5 comments, on Mar 9 6:20 PM 2008
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In all the annals of the English ships upon the sea,
few greater than Revenge go down in naval history.
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Nearby, deep down in Venusberg, the goddess keeps her court
to which she lures unwary knights who journey to the fort. -
If Christian men and women simply “turn the other cheek”,
the terrorists will triumph and annihilate the weak. -
Rienzi was a Tribune once in 14th century Rome.
Orsino, a patrician, rudely burst into his home -
"All Frenchmen! Learn and heed the lessons of the recent war!
Go home, make babies, you who hardly ever did before!" -
In the bedroom of the Princess Werdenberg, Octavian kneels
declaring, in his youthful way, the love for her he feels. -
Young Dmitri, heir and brother of Tsar Feodor, is slain
at Boris’ instigation, whose ambition is to reign. -
Oh! I was born a Kiwi, in New Zealand. Understand?
My great-grandfather, Thomas, was an early pioneer. -
With Ovlur at his side Prince Igor safely has returned,
his mind set on revenge and with desire for vengeance burned. -
Let those who would deny these horrors contemplate the facts.
The evidence is clear attesting to these ghastly acts. -
Of many places where I’ve been and all the stately homes I’ve seen,
it’s Yorkshire’s Castle Howard I find that comes most readily to mind. -
The names of Percy, Seymour, Wyndham, Egremont still stay
so linked with Petworth Mansion over seven hundred years, -
Such opulence, the mind might find quite difficult to grapple
with evidence of wealth once held by those of lordly station. -
I knew three Maori women once
quite unlike any other. -
less than half a mile in distance,
all perceived an apparition, -
I hope Charles Blomfield’s painting will give you an impression of what we were then deprived.
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It’s often said: “The Lord gives but He also takes away”
and Maoris claimed the cataclysm born of godly wrath. -
The earliest settlers in our country, Aotearoa,
were Polynesian voyagers who came and hunted moa. -
That Moriori settled New Zealand first is a claim
without foundation. -
Alone, he tells himself: “How well I stir her jealous passion!
And now, a two-fold purpose in my heart I entertain: -
In Scarpia’s apartments in the Palazzo Farnese,
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I dedicate the Three Acts of this Opera Story to my adopted daughter, Mari Goes with love on this,
her birthday, July 15th. 2008.
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The NZ Herald last October, in its Daily News,
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The Nine Muses.
I swotted my museology for I’m a simple twit
who can't off-hand remember all their names. -
O’ haughty queen whose eyes have seen with transport of delight
the deaths obscene of men who’ve been your lovers overnight. -
The scene is set in Paris on a barge upon the Seine.
It is twilight as Michele, the owner, lights his pipe again -
Sweet maid of Lesbos, left exposed but suckled by a ewe,
found as a babe by shepherd Dryas who took care of you. -
At birth as Tutankhaten named, of Egypt’s Pharaohs the most famed
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I watched a man the other day who chased a destitute away.
He didn’t want that beggar’s feet to sully his side of the street. -
When a woman’s left without a man she has to live as best she can
with many diverse avenues to earn a wage - but which to choose?: -
She knows that, when she grows too old, the males’ attentiveness to hold,
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Why do we have these hopes and dreams
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Her brother Lescaut has been charged to bring her safely here
to a convent where she’ll spend her life in piety and prayer. -
U.S. President Obama’s put his finger on those jerkers
who are asking for a handout while they’re firing half their workers. -
This tells the ancient legend of King Waldemar, the Great
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I heard the bugler sound his sad lament -
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The Tsar has sent Opritchniks out with orders to select
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Our Ex-Prime Minister came to me, quite reverently on bended knee.
She should have curtseyed properly, but she is ignorant you see, -
A moonlit night by Ilmen’s shores. Disconsolately singing,
there Sadko sits while waters ripple and the rushes sigh -
It’s now the city elders’ turn as poorest of the poor
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The Prophet publicly denounced King Herod’s sinful life.
He had his brother murdered, took his throne and then his wife. -
That little rustic bench of yore
beside the old mill stream, -
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She recites to him the insults that her mother heaps upon her,
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In the public square of Gaza city, in ancient Palestine,
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The houselights dim, the curtain rises, vesper bells are ringing.
‘Tis evening at the Convent, nuns file in sedately singing. -
It is springtime in a small Black Forest village where a pair,
Roberto and his Anna, celebrate their love affair, -
They call me Cho Cho San in Yokohama where I live.
I work in an Okiya as a Geisha every day. -
Although they took Tut’s wealth away, they left his mummy where it lay
and there it rests right to this day….. -
At Antietam near Sharpsburg stands a three-span limestone bridge
in a valley underneath some bluffs which form a sort of ridge. -
How many people really know about the sailor John Cabot
who, with his son Sebastian, did first discover Newfoundland? -
Although Columbus added much new territory for Spain,
the Continent of North America he failed to gain. -
And, if he’d been a man with just a bit more resolution,
I'm certain that, today, you wouldn’t have your Constitution!
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Are you aware, from history, how many malcontents
assassinated, while in office, US Presidents?
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The New York monument that stands for all the world to see,
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A surviving native witness from the Little Bighorn swore:
“He was the bravest and the greatest chief I ever saw.” -
Was he an ill-starred hero or a headstrong, reckless fool?
I ask myself this question since I learned of him at school. -
The Campanile of Pisa, from 1173
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In roll-of-honour, cenotaph or military shrine,
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Of ancient Cypriot sculptors, one above all else excelled.
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So now, throughout the seasons, I come here to lie alone
and wonder if she’s still my love beneath her cold grey stone. -
The 1904 records show that Master-Captain Hugh Monro
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The first known use of Chocolate, as some of you may know,
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In Flanders fields red poppies grow.
I’ve read somewhere that this is so
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