Counterpin for Conterpane

The Land of Counterpane

Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850 - 1894

When I was sick and lay a-bed,  

I had two pillows at my head,  

And all my toys beside me lay  

To keep me happy all the day.  

  

And sometimes for an hour or so    

I watched my leaden soldiers go,  

With different uniforms and drills,  

Among the bed-clothes, through the hills;  

  

And sometimes sent my ships in fleets  

All up and down among the sheets; 

Or brought my trees and houses out,  

And planted cities all about.  

  

I was the giant great and still  

That sits upon the pillow-hill,  

And sees before him, dale and plain,

The pleasant land of THE COUNTERPANE.

FRIEND Bonnie from Eastern NC sent me the above. I re-read Treasure Island this year. So I do appreciate the author. His Treasure Island and the Strange case of Dr. Jekell and Mr Hyde have been unusually interesting.

So what I am assuming is that the word Counterpin is a southern word for counterpane. LOL  We folk from the south pronounce a few words strangely. (I am sure none of you Northern folk have noticed that before.) LOL

Now for tonights comments:

To begin, we have suffered tragic and sickening things in our great country. But the worst tragedy was brought to our country by politicians. Politicians who could not solve a problem, so in the Uncivil war we as a nation killed 620,000 of our finest. But that was us, and way back in my Great great grandfathers day. I hope we somehow are smarter today.

In my lifetime I have seen the two terrible tragedies since our Uncivil war. Pearl Harbor where we lost millions of $ in ships/planes and buildings and worst of all nearly 4000 lives.

Then came 9/11, where we lost 4 Billion in real estate and nearly 3,000 lives.

We just went thru a 15^th anniversary of that tragedy, it was a well planned and very successful terrorist attack on our country.  I pray it never happens again. God Bless America.

Nite Shipslog

Ah, that 1978 Cobra Mustang....