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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi Everyone:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">A good friend, who is British, remembers and is haunted by this poem from her childhood and is desperate to find or figure out how to find the author. Any help much appreciated.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Up a little twisty stair<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Through a tiny door<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">To a most enchanting place<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">The land of years before.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Here is Grandpa's rocking chair<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Great Aunt Jemima's shawl<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">A crinoline great Grandma wore<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">At her first grown up ball.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">A little pair of satin shoes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">A coat of bottle green<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">And Grandma Trinder's wedding dress<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">The sweetest ever seen.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Oh, magic land of years before<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">What happy times we share<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">When we go through the tiny door<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Up the little twisty stair.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you so much,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Martín<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Martín Blasco<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Outreach Librarian for Latino and Multicultural Services<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Washington County Cooperative Library Services | 503-681-5093<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="mailto:martinb@wccls.org">martinb@wccls.org</a> |
<a href="http://www.facebook.org/bibliotecaswccls">facebook.org/bibliotecaswccls</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-size:9.0pt">“Emborráchate de literatura, porque tu resaca será la cultura”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">“Get drunk with literature, because your hangover will be culture”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt">Julio Cortázar </span></b><b><o:p></o:p></b></p>
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