Anon. quote: "Any day above ground..."

[Tom Zurinskas]

Looks like a ladder "round" has become a "rung".

Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL7+
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> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Garson O'Toole
> <adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> Subject: Re: Anon. quote: "Any day above ground..."
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>> Tom Snyder's grandmother and the bumper sticker makers may have been
>> preternaturally influenced by the following poem, "Life is a Ladder",
>> from October 1895:
>>
>> Life is called a ladder
>> Which we climb round by round,
>> We should step up higher,
>> Each day above the ground.
>>
>> Each noble deed we do,
>> Each kind word we say,
>> Each trouble we pass through,
>> Is a step upon the way.
>>
>> Citation: Primary Education, Volume 3, Page 290, Educational Pub. Co.,
>> 1895.
>>
>> http://books.google.com/books?id=3D-tMBAAAAYAAJ&q=3D%22day+above%22#v=3Ds=
> nippet&q=3D%22day%20above%22&f=3Dfalse
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