Re: Whoops! The Atlantic Makes Trump Look EPIC In Cover Intended as a Smear

Paul S Person wrote:

On Mon, 16 Sep 2024 16:29:18 -0000 (UTC), Don <g@crcomp.net> wrote:
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Far sighted Bacon knew it would take centuries for his vision to come
true. Should Trump singlehandedly reverse centuries of sociological
ratcheting it'd be enough to make Bacon "sing the blues" as they say.
Only the blues didn't exist back in Bacon's day - ergo "Flow My Tears."

 John Dowland, born 2 years after Francis Bacon and so a contemporary
of his, wrote, among others, lute songs with titles like:
 Can She Excuse My Wrongs
I Saw My Lady Weep
and
Flow My Tears
 so, yes, I would say people in Bacon's day sung the blues, even if the
genre by that name did not exist yet.
 I wouldn't rule out such songs in Ancient Rome, or even Classical
Greece.
 As I said elsewhere, songs about problems with romance appearto have
been around for a /very/ long time.

But he could also be less serious.
In a song the singer tells of his love for Cynthia, and how he carves her name into a tree.
But later in the same song:
"If Cynthia crave her ring of me I blot her name out of the tree".
William Hyde