James Whitcomb Riley wrote the following poem, welcoming Spring:
The First Bluebird
Jest rain and snow! and rain again!
And dribble! drip! and blow!
Then snow! and thaw! and slush! and then
Some more rain and snow!
This morning I was’most afeard
To wake upwhen, I jing!
I seen the sun shine out and heerd
The first bluebird of Spring!
Mother she’d raised the winder some;
And in acrost the orchurd come,
Soft as a angel’s wing,
A breezy, treesy, beesy hum,
Too sweet fer anything!
The winter’s shroud was rent a-part
The sun bust forth in glee,
And when that bluebird sung, my hart
Hopped out o’ bed with me!
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I would have posted a picture of a bluebird, but then the post would be in HTML, and it would take a half hour to put < p > and < center > in front of every line.
You folks are too computer savvy for me. (Wish I knew how to do it, an easier way.)
Thank you all for your beautiful graphics and poems! ;-)
Yorkie ... a suggestion on getting all the extra stuff in.
; ^ )
Copy the text into the post window. Then do spellcheck. That should put in all the < P >’s and < /P >’s. Do a preview before adding the image. You will also need to add the < center > and < /center> before doing the final preview.
Hope this helps.
Ooops ... I forgot something!
PS: thanks for The First Bluebird. It is cute!