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Celebrating today's Birthday Anniversary

Thank You, Colonel Flagg, for introducing Sarah to we poets of the Lair.

Sara Teasdale
(1884-1933)

"Did You Never Know?"
by Sara Teasdale

Did you never know, long ago, how much you loved me --
That your love would never lessen and never go?
You were young then, proud and fresh-hearted,
You were too young to know.

Fate is a wind, and red leaves fly before it
Far apart, far away in the gusty time of year --
Seldom we meet now, but when I hear you speaking,
I know your secret, my dear, my dear.

"It Will Not Change"
by Sara Teasdale

It will not change now
After so many years;
Life has not broken it
With parting or tears;
Death will not alter it,
It will live on
In all my songs for you
When I am gone.

Those born on this date are under the sign of Leo include:

the United States' first professional architect, Charles
Bulfinch, in 1763;

American black explorer Matthew Henson in 1866;

Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata in 1879;

poet Sara Teasdale in 1884;

author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings ("The Yearling") in 1896;

composer/conductor Victor Young ("Around The World in
80 Days") in 1900;

musician Benny Carter in 1907;

Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg in 1908;

actress Sylvia Sidney in 1910;

movie producer Dino DeLaurentis in 1919 (age 87);

actor Rory Calhoun in 1922;

aquatic actress Esther Williams in 1922 (age 84);

country singer Mel Tillis in 1932 (age 74);

actor Dustin Hoffman in 1937 (age 69);

singer Connie Stevens in 1938 (age 68);

actor Keith Carradine in 1949 (age 57);

writer/journalist Randy Shilts in 1951;

TV personality Deborah Norville in 1958 (age 48);

and Beatrice, Princess of York, in 1988 (age 18).