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Well, there you go, Steve. This forum truly is a great place ...everybody steps up to the plate ...er keyboard ...to do the right thing.
Some forums would not do so...
...remembering only the heat of a past discussion (or two)
...the chance to rob a man of his due.
Acknowledgement perhaps better described by
another published author:
The Cheat
Edgar Guest
I cheated a good friend yesterday,
Kept what was his, and went my way,
Wronged him by silence-for in haste
I let a glad thought go to waste.
I had a word of cheer to speak,
To strengthen him when he grew weak,
To send him smiling on his way -
But what I thought I didn't say.
He would have richer been to know
That deed of his had pleased me so,
But oh, I failed to let him see
How much his conquest meant to me.
I cheated him of words of praise
Which would have cheered his troubled days;
In this a faithful friend I wronged,
By keeping what to him belonged.
The praise was his by right to hear,
To him belonged my word of cheer;
In silence, though, from him I turned
And cheated him of what he'd earned.
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Kind of corny but I've always liked it...
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