*uncontrollable gigglefits*<br><br>*cough, attempt to arrange features in appropriate mask of melancholy*<br><br>Woe indeed. And why does no one seem to believe me when I tell them that W, like Y, is a perfectly good vowel? Why, between the two we scarcely really need the others...<br>
<br>-Catrin<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br><b><i><a href="mailto:peterschorn@pdq.net" target="_blank">peterschorn@pdq.net</a></i></b> wrote:<blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"> <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(245, 245, 245); padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 0px;"> <div>My soul is black</div> <div>Black with despair</div>
<div>Black as the formerly-green woods of Cynan Vale</div> <div>For the clangor of commerce</div> <div>And the soot of ill-will</div> <div>And the clear-cutting and subsequent erosion of unreturned (why will no one return them?) e-mails</div>
<div>Have driven from my soul the green leaves of hope</div> <div>Driven from it the chirruping songbirds of joy</div> <div>Driven from it the furry little woodland creatures with big brown eyes, of compassion.</div> <div>
The world has gone strange to me.</div> <div>Lo,
it understandeth me not</div> <div>Understandeth not the sensiteve poet</div> <div>Understandeth not the cultured Welshman</div> <div>For it thinketh an Eisteddfod is an agricultural implement</div> <div>It holdeth that Llwyarch Hen is something like a Rhode Island Red.</div>
<div>The world is strange</div> <div>People are strange</div> <div>When you're a stranger</div> <div>Faces look ugly</div> <div>When you're alone.</div> <div>Yes, that's Welsh.</div> <div>Or at least it should be</div>
<div>If the world were as it should be</div> <div>Or as it should have been</div> <div>But never was.</div> <div>But it is not, wasn't, and never will be.</div> <div>Wherefore I sing:</div> <div>Woe, me.</div> <div>Woe, you.</div>
<div>Woe, they.</div> <div>Woe, hossie.</div></blockquote><br><hr></div></div></blockquote></blockquote></div><br>