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after my mum had her stroke and went completely ga ga, she kept having lucid moments where she could remember events from her childhood, (but couldn't remember a conversation more than 30 secs prior) We were in her back garden and my nephew was recording some garden birds, when my mum started to recite a poem from her childhood, word perfect. We played the recording at her funeral and there wasn't a dry eye in the church. It was this one
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Oh, to be in England [/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Now that April's there,[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]And whoever wakes in England[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Sees, some morning, unaware,[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf,[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough [/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]In England - now! [/FONT]


[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]And after April, when May follows,[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]And the whitethroat builds, and all the swallows [/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Hark! where my blossomed pear-tree in the hedge [/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Leans to the field and scatters on the clover[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Blossoms and dewdrops - at the bent spray's edge [/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over,[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Lest you should think he never could recapture[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]The first fine careless rapture! [/FONT]


[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]And though the fields look rough with hoary dew,[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]All will be gay when noontide wakes anew [/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]The buttercups, the little children's dower, - [/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Far brighter than this gaudy melon-flower! [/FONT]


[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Robert Browning (1812-1889)[/FONT]
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