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Article: Notes & Asides.
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- National Review
- Article date:
- August 11, 2003
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-- Dear Mr. Buckley: My mother died last year at the age of 76. In her papers I found her longhand copy of a poem that caught her schoolgirl fancy sometime (I estimate) in the late 1930s.
She attributes it to the Queen's University (Belfast) student rag Pro Tanto Quid, but doesn't provide the name of the author.
I thought you might enjoy it.
The Grammarian's Funeral
The Grammarian said,
"I'm ill because
(To introduce an adverb clause)