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From: William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Whoops! The Atlantic Makes Trump Look EPIC In Cover Intended as a
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Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2024 18:45:49 -0400
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Paul S Person wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Sep 2024 16:29:18 -0000 (UTC), Don <g@crcomp.net> wrote:
> 
> <snippo>
>> Far sighted Bacon knew it would take centuries for his vision to come
>> true. Should Trump singlehandedly reverse centuries of sociological
>> ratcheting it'd be enough to make Bacon "sing the blues" as they say.
>> Only the blues didn't exist back in Bacon's day - ergo "Flow My Tears."
> 
> John Dowland, born 2 years after Francis Bacon and so a contemporary
> of his, wrote, among others, lute songs with titles like:
> 
> Can She Excuse My Wrongs
> I Saw My Lady Weep
> and
> Flow My Tears
> 
> so, yes, I would say people in Bacon's day sung the blues, even if the
> genre by that name did not exist yet.
> 
> I wouldn't rule out such songs in Ancient Rome, or even Classical
> Greece.
> 
> As I said elsewhere, songs about problems with romance appearto have
> been around for a /very/ long time.

But he could also be less serious.

In a song the singer tells of his love for Cynthia, and how he carves 
her name into a tree.

But later in the same song:

"If Cynthia crave her ring of me I blot her name out of the tree".


William Hyde

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