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This is my message to the 40-year-old Linda. No matter what happens you were always my bobolink, my special Linda Gray. Life is not easy. It is awfully lonely. I know that. Now you too know it-wherever you are, Linda, talking to me. But I've had a good life-I wrote unhappy-but I lived to the hilt. You too, Linda-Live to the HILT! To the top. I love you, 40-year-old Linda, and I love what you do, what you find, what you are!-Be your own woman. Belong to those...
...Bobolink...
When Gay MacLaren was a little girl she decided to become an elocutionist after she heard a Chautauqua performer recite The Bobolink. The high point of this performance was a trill: cheeeeeee, prrrrrrr, cheeeeeeeeeeeeee, which Gay practiced so hard her South Dakota neighbors asked her if she didn't know a piece with some other kind of bird in it. But Gay kept on practicing, studied elocution in Minneapolis, finally got her big chance at the New York Chautauqua. Thereafter she followed the Chautauqua circuit, along with chalk-talk artists, bell ringers, evangelists, yodlers, zither performers, magicians, bagpipe players...
...teacher, but not a mere preacher, not a mere pedagogue that puts before us the mere bare bones of a philosophy. The poet may be a teacher, but he will be a teacher who instructs by the indirection of beauty, by suggestion. The poet teaches as the bobolink teaches, by leaving upon us the inspirations of beautiful harmonies, so that the soul, without knowing it is elevated and noble...
...bobolink's hilarious song...
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