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

[Wilson Gray]

Whoa! News to me! "... a ladder which we climb, _round_ by _round_
..." Before today, that would have been gibberish to me. Well, I would
have read it as meaning, "one by one," "as our turns come," or some
such, since Robert Frost's name on it would have precluded my taking
it for gibberish.

-Wilson

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 7:48 PM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Yeah, Robert Frost still said "round" somewhere.  "After Apple- Picking,"
> maybe.
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> JL
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> 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+
>> see truespel.com phonetic spelling
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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:
>> >>
>> >> 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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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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