Carl Remick wrote:
>
> >From: Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu>
> >
> >Out of the 10s of thousands of lines Carl Sandburg wrote, there is one
> >passage that deserves immortality. I can't remember it exactly now, but
> >it speaks of how the golf links lie so close to the mill that the
> >children at work can see the men at play.
>
> Well, I guess it's history's dustbin for Carl S. and his oeuvre. "The Golf
> Links" was written by Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn:
I'll be damned. For 30 or 40 years I've off & on thought of looking up the lines, which I think I read back in the mid-40s. And all that time I've associated them with Sandburg.
More evidence (see Stephen Gould on this sort of thing) of the great undependability of even the most vivid memories. I wonder how many times over the years I would pull something out of memory and pass it on to students when the memory was in fact this bad!
Carrol
>
> The golf links lie so near the mill
> That almost every day
> The laboring children can look out
> And see the men at play.
>
> http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/216.html
>
> Carl
>
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