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Open Poetry #35

PRESIDENT’S DAY

Abe
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since 2003-05-28

Posts 694
Looks like Vero Beach, FL until the end!

0 posted 2005-02-20 04:04 PM

Back in Seventeen ninety-six
Is when this Holiday began
For the birthday of ol’ George
At least that was the plan.
It was his last full year
Of his Presidency
Born February twenty-second
Or the Eleventh, ‘cause you see
The old calendar was different
Than the one we use today
And some celebrated one
Some people on the other day.
By the early Nineteenth Century
Celebrated every year
Birthnight Balls were held
Taverns reveled in good cheer.
Public figures gave their speeches
And Receptions given by a few
Then along came ol’ Abe Lincoln
His Birthday in February too.
In Eighteen and sixty-five
The year after Booth’s fatal shot
Both House’s of Congress gathered
For a Memorial and solemn thought.
Not a Federal Holiday like George’s
But legal in more than one State
And then a Resolution was enacted
Back in Nineteen sixty-eight.
They made the third Monday of the month
To make for a three day weekend
To honor Washington and Lincoln
And this story comes to it’s end.

Del "Abe" Jones

Sunshine

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since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

1 posted 2005-02-20 04:55 PM

Abe, it is so very comforting
to be able to find you behind
the stem and stern of patriotism!

Thank you.

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

2 posted 2005-02-20 05:08 PM

I love when you teach history

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