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1 posted on 02/20/2020 3:58:05 PM PST by Ozguy1945
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To: Ozguy1945

About the only thing I know about him is that Bill and Hillary were fans. That sure doesn’t bode well for him.


2 posted on 02/20/2020 4:02:11 PM PST by yarddog ( For I am persuaded.)
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To: Ozguy1945

One of my favorites,

O CAPTAIN! my Captain! our fearful trip is done;
The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won;
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring:
But O heart! heart! heart!
O the bleeding drops of red,
Where on the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.

O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells;
Rise up-for you the flag is flung-for you the bugle trills;
For you bouquets and ribbon’d wreaths-for you the shores a-crowding;
For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning;
Here Captain! dear father!
This arm beneath your head;
It is some dream that on the deck,
You’ve fallen cold and dead.

My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still;
My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will;
The ship is anchor’d safe and sound, its voyage closed and done;
From fearful trip, the victor ship, comes in with object won;
Exult, O shores, and ring, O bells!
But I, with mournful tread,
Walk the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.


4 posted on 02/20/2020 4:07:18 PM PST by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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