Byrd on C-Span2 now

[eleny]

An Easter message.

[KoKo]

1. He's dressed in BLACK! OMG!

[bedtimeforbonzo]

2. I guess he doesn't dress in white too much anymore

n/t

[KoKo]

4. Is his wife Ill? God be with you in the Winter, Irma?

Beautiful poems. I remember "God Be With You in the Spring, Summer and Winter" from years ago.

[kera]

3. please`

could you summaries what his poetry means? I liked it but i did not get his point thank

[KoKo]

5. Here are some links. He's trying to send a message to his supporters,

I think.

Thru The Year
God be with you in the Springtime When the violets unfold, And the buttercups and
cowslips Fill the fields with yellowgold; In the time of apple blossoms, When ...
www.geocities.com/twink2k2/poem-year/page.html - 7k - Cached - Similar pages
(The "Wheat Poem" he sited along with another before I tuned into C-Span. Here's somethin about WJ Bryan:

Bryan, William Jennings on Encyclopedia.com
... IN BRYAN?": THE RELIGIOUS IMPLICATIONS OF THE ALLUSION TO "A FOREST HYMN" IN THE
SUN ALSO RISES.(politician William Jennings Bryan, poet William Cullen Bryant ...
www.encyclopedia.com/html/B/Bryan-W1i.asp - 44k - Cached - Similar pages

William Jennings Bryan
... speech to the Democratic Convention in 1920 in support of Prohibition." The gifted
orator William Jennings Bryan was once called "the one American poet who can ...
www.swordofthelord.com/biographies/bryan.htm - 7k - Cached - Similar pages
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TOMPAINE.com - COMPARE GORE TO WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN?
... the reincarnation of Populist William Jennings Bryan in his ... In short, Bryan's nomination
represented the death ... 1840 Whig nomination of William Henry Harrison ...
www.tompaine.com/feature2.cfm/ID/3571 - 20k - Cached - Similar pages
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William Jennings Bryan: The White Man's Burden
... The White Man's Burden by William Jennings Bryan Address at the Independence Day
Banquet of the ... it is not unfitting to adopt a phrase coined by a poet to whom ...
www.edchange.org/multicultural/ speeches/w_bryan_white.html - 27k - Cached - Similar pages
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William Jennings Bryan: Imperialism
... Imperialism by William Jennings Bryan Indianapolis, Indiana April 8, 1908 ... A poet
has described the terror which overcame a soldier who in the midst of the ...
www.edchange.org/multicultural/speeches/ w_bryan_imperialism.html - 57k - Cached - Similar pages

[Kanary]

6. His hands shaking

Whatever he was in his past, and whatever he is now in strongly speaking out, the shaking in his hands speaks to him as a human who has some of his own physical struggles. I commend him for continuuing. (Yes, I know it's been there for a while... just needed to voice my appreciation.)

And, thanks for the links.

Kanary

[KoKo]

7. He's a "three dimensional man!" or maybe a "fourth dimensional man."

His love of History, Poetry and the America he's seen in his 86 years bears watching. I love to learn from our "elders." Trying to see life and America through their tired, fading eyes.

I am thankful that some like Byrd's eyes are bright and their memory has not faded and that they are here to pass along things to me that I need to know. If I don't want to know, I can discard it, but if I am receptive then he has lived his life to pass along and educate folks like me.

:toast" to you "Bobby" Byrd! We don't see any of you around anymore, and glad we had the chance to get to know you!