Happy! – Feb 22 (Edy Millay / Thackray)

Subject: Happy! – Feb 22 (Edy Millay / Thackray)
From: Abby Sale
Date: 22 Feb 06 - 07:47 AM


Happy Birthday!

Poetatrix Edna St Vincent Millay

was born 2/22/1892
(d.1982)

          Said Elena Saint Vincent Millay
          As she lay in the hall all asplay,
          "If you can make wine
          From these grapes I opine,
          We'll stay in this barn until May!"
  
                   Ribald Limericks, Discovery Books (San Francisco) ©1961 by Jerry Kamstra

[The sole source of our income at one time was selling this paricular book from bar to bar in San Francisco.
Not many sales, but a whole lot of free beers.]

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ALSO:
Singer/songwriter Jake Thackray

was born in Yorkshire on February 22, 1938
(died on Christmas Eve 2002)

          I, the under-mentioned, by this document do declare my true intentions,
          My last will, my testament.
          when I turn up my toes,
          when I rattle my clack, when I agonise, I want no great wet weepings
          No tearing of hair, no wringing of hands
          No sighs, no lack-a-days
          No woe-is-me's and none of your sad adieus.
          Go go go and get the priest
          And then go get the booze, boys. 
  
  From: Obit in the Daily Telegraph – thanx Nigel Parsons of Mudcat 
  & www.jakethackray.co.uk.

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