[John Whitworth]

Maryann, thank you. I think I can do that. Actually no-one has ASKED me too, but I'll do it to all ten poems to make sure. And thank you all who have helped me.

[John Whitworth]

The poems can be found on a separate thread.

[Maryann Corbett]

Thanks, John! The code looks just fine, as does the poem.

Most years, we have a separate thread for each poem. It makes it easier to see each new one and to comment on each one separately. Would you mind very much starting a new thread for this one and the rest? Thanks for all your work on this.

[Janice D. Soderling]

I believe the code has to be the very first thing in the thread if it is to have any effect.

Anyway, that is according to a note I copied from a post Alex made about it a few years ago.

There is a post from Alex somewhere in the archives that tells exactly how to do and what it protects. I'll try to find it and put up the link to it.

Found it. Here you go.

http://www.ablemuse.com/erato/faq.php?faq=vb3_reading_posting#faq_block_google

and here are all the BBcode lists.

http://www.ablemuse.com/erato/misc.php?do=bbcode#l

[Catherine Chandler]

Copied to the new thread.

[Mary Meriam]

Here's your comment:

Originally Posted by Catherine Chandler

This exquisite poem will be hard to "beat". It has such a fine, firm sense of place and of self within the place, with details, rhymes and rhythm that welcome in the reader. Everything in the poem leads inevitably to those two final haunting lines that are to die, and to live, for. Of course, I think we all know who wrote this poem . Bravo, bravissimo!