[SEL] The Dying Maytag (Part 1 of 4)

[Dave Croft]

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From: "Jack Watson" <nadejack at optusnet.com.au>
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Thanks Brent, but I'm no poet.
Edward Farmer was the poet. He wrote "The Colliers Dying Child" in 1846,
a real tear-jerker popular when such mawkish recitations were performed
in Victorian (UK) parlours.
I am just the parody-ist.
JW²

Hi Jack, Very good for a first poem.
If you want to see the worlds worse poem see William Topaz McGonagall's
famous poem "The Tay Bridge Disaster" See
http://poetry.about.com/library/weekly/aa050499.htm
It is so bad that it is memorable.
Dave Croft
Warrington
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