BS: Ear Worm Sort of...Help!

Subject: BS: Ear Worm Sort of...Help!
From: SINSULL
Date: 14 Jan 14 - 11:39 AM

A line of poetry keeps running through my head and I can't place it.

"Gray the sky
Gray gray gray..."

I thought "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" but the only Gray there is the author.
Anyone?????

Subject: RE: BS: Ear Worm Sort of...Help!
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 14 Jan 14 - 12:09 PM

Donno about Gray gray. How about Cray cray?

Imagine these guys reading your poem!

Totes Magotes

Subject: RE: BS: Ear Worm Sort of...Help!
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 14 Jan 14 - 04:48 PM

Fifty shades perhaps?

Subject: RE: BS: Ear Worm Sort of...Help!
From: maeve
Date: 14 Jan 14 - 05:48 PM

T.S. Eliot, Mary, with the British spelling 'grey'.

The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot By T.S. Eliot
(A fragment)...
Here is no continuing city,
Here is no abiding stay.
Ill the wind, ill the time,
Uncertain the profit,
Certain the danger.

O late late late, late is the time,
Too late, and rotten the year;
Evil the wind, and bitter the sea,
And grey the sky, grey grey grey.

-- from
"Murder in the Cathedral" by T.S. Eliot

Subject: RE: BS: Ear Worm Sort of...Help!
From: Ebbie
Date: 14 Jan 14 - 06:28 PM

Now that's a cheerful little ditty.

Subject: RE: BS: Ear Worm Sort of...Help!
From: Eldergirl
Date: 14 Jan 14 - 06:48 PM

Ain' DAT De troof.
And probably 9 out of 10 people have had a day something like it..

Subject: RE: BS: Ear Worm Sort of...Help!
From: frogprince
Date: 14 Jan 14 - 07:06 PM

As I meditated, I had this little thought;
Life is short and nasty, and then you die and rot.

Subject: RE: BS: Ear Worm Sort of...Help!
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 15 Jan 14 - 10:39 AM

Good for you, Maeve! I think you've nailed it.

Sinsull, where art thou?

Subject: RE: BS: Ear Worm Sort of...Help!
From: maeve
Date: 15 Jan 14 - 12:21 PM

Thanks, leeneia. Sinsull will be at work so it may be a wee while before she can check back in.

Subject: RE: BS: Ear Worm Sort of...Help!
From: SINSULL
Date: 15 Jan 14 - 01:38 PM

thank you, maeve!

I played a part in a local production of Murder in the Cathedral. One of my lines: ... I have tasted The living lobster, the crab, the oyster, the whelk and the prawn; and they live and spawn in my bowels, and my bowels dissolve in the light of dawn.

Charming stuff.

Now on to some other nonsensical tidbit...
SINS, at work

Subject: RE: BS: Ear Worm Sort of...Help!
From: maeve
Date: 15 Jan 14 - 02:36 PM

"I have tasted The living lobster, the crab, the oyster, the whelk and the prawn; and they live and spawn in my bowels, and my bowels dissolve in the light of dawn."   

What a wonderful line, Sinsull!

I'm glad I could help find the Grey (non-funnel) line. It just happens I prefer that spelling, so used it in my search.

Maeve

Subject: RE: BS: Ear Worm Sort of...Help!
From: JennieG
Date: 15 Jan 14 - 03:13 PM

Geez......sounds like a bad reaction to seafood sauce! Spaghetti marinara, anyone?