Scout wrote:
Thanks Gilligan,
RS is my favorite poet.
I've committed several of his works to memory.
It's the main thing I had in common with Ronald Reagan.
Scout

I've told the first part of this befo
Some years back I was riding with my parents and the conversation must
have turned to the arctic, because my mother started reciting, "There
are strange things done ..."

As it turned out, this was the only poem I had ever memorized, and
between the two of us we manged to stumble through it. On my next
birthday, I received a book of Robert Service poems.

Last month this came full circle when my 6th grade daughter came home
with Sam McGee as her English assignment. Since she already knows I'm
a terminal nerd, she was not in the least bit impressed that I could
recite it!

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