Thank you Richard. What an excellent ode on retirement. Your second posting is an excellent warning on the security and privacy of e-mail.
Score another point for the eclectic nature of this list. Roger Bailey > >Here it is. It's a bit more dialectal than you remember! ;-) > > >Chant-Pagan >by Rudyard Kipling > > ENGLISH IRREGULAR, DISCHARGED > >Me that 'ave watched 'arf a world >'Eave up all shiny with dew, >Kopje on kop to the sun, >An' as soon as the mist let 'em through >Our 'elios winkin' like fun -- >Three sides of a ninety-mile square, >Over valleys as big as a shire -- >"Are ye there? Are ye there? Are ye there?" >An' then the blind drum of our fire . . . >An' I'm rollin' 'is lawns for the Squire, > Me! >
