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To: Stepan12

Columbus could have waited a year before sailing because then the poem would still rhyme with “boundless sea”.

;^)


31 posted on 10/14/2019 3:37:17 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: elcid1970
Columbus could have waited a year before sailing because then the poem would still rhyme with “boundless sea”.

LOL. Being Italian, and sailing for the Spanish crown, I don't think he was overly concerned with English rhyming. :-)

43 posted on 10/14/2019 6:46:22 AM PDT by zeugma (I sure wish I lived in a country where the rule of law actually applied to those in power.)
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