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712 posted on
07/10/2004 7:31:36 AM PDT by
SAMWolf
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The Kitchen Chimney

Builder, in building the little house,
In every way you may please yourself;
But please please me in the kitchen chimney:
Don't build me a chimney upon a shelf.
However far you must go for bricks,
Whatever they cost a-piece or a pound,
But me enough for a full-length chimney,
And build the chimney clear from the ground.
It's not that I'm greatly afraid of fire,
But I never heard of a house that throve
(And I know of one that didn't thrive)
Where the chimney started above the stove.
And I dread the ominous stain of tar
That there always is on the papered walls,
And the smell of fire drowned in rain
That there always is when the chimney's false.
A shelf's for a clock or vase or picture,
But I don't see why it should have to bear
A chimney that only would serve to remind me
Of castles I used to build in air.
Robert Frost
Johnmiserable failureKerry
713 posted on
07/10/2004 7:32:06 AM PDT by
SAMWolf
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Howdy to all at the Dragon Flies' Lair!
Hope everyone's doing well this sweltering summer day. 
719 posted on
07/10/2004 4:11:33 PM PDT by
radu
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