The Cremation of Sam McGee

[Tonks]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "bboyminn" <bboyminn at ...> wrote:
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> I meant to tack this onto my last post, but I forgot. 
> 
> It is hard to say why some poems grab me, and other don't, but
> I certainly found this one enjoyable. 
> 
> "The Cremation of Sam McGee"
> Robert Service (1874-1958)
> 
>

Tonks:
Ah, yes. When I was about 10 years old, in school, we had to pick a poem to memorize and recite in class and this was the one I picked, for some reason. I think I just thought it was funny. 

"It was the first time he was warm..."

Tonks_op