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

[Jonathan Lighter]

Yeah, Robert Frost still said "round" somewhere.  "After Apple- Picking,"
maybe.

JL

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 7:16 PM, Tom Zurinskas <truespel at hotmail.com> wrote:

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> Looks like a ladder "round" has become a "rung".
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> Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL7+
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> > On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Garson O'Toole
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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:
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> >> Life is called a ladder
> >> Which we climb round by round,
> >> We should step up higher,
> >> Each day above the ground.
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> >> Each noble deed we do,
> >> Each kind word we say,
> >> Each trouble we pass through,
> >> Is a step upon the way.
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> >> Citation: Primary Education, Volume 3, Page 290, Educational Pub. Co.,
> >> 1895.
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> >>
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