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To: Islander7

condolences to his family.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Whenever Richard Cory went down town,
We people on the pavement looked at him:
He was a gentleman from sole to crown,
Clean favored, and imperially slim.

And he was always quietly arrayed,
And he was always human when he talked;
But still he fluttered pulses when he said,
‘Good-morning,’ and he glittered when he walked.

And he was rich - yes, richer than a king -
And admirably schooled in every grace:
In fine, we thought that he was everything
To make us wish that we were in his place.

So on we worked, and waited for the light,
And went without the meat, and cursed the bread;
And Richard Cory, one calm summer night,
Went home and put a bullet through his head.


26 posted on 08/11/2014 4:24:56 PM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: Drango

The class warfare in “Richard Cory” comes screaming out in the final verse.

Anyway, this Vietnam vet loved “Good Morning, Vietnam!”

FWIW


61 posted on 08/11/2014 4:35:58 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("In the modern world, Muslims are living fossils.")
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