Bill said it all. A thousand thanks Riobard!!! >From a 84 yr old lister and, I hope, a friend Slante, Dalton O'Sullivan San Francisco,CA -----Original Message----- >From: Bill Gawne <[email protected]> >Sent: Nov 23, 2012 7:47 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [BEARA] Many things. > >Dear friends of Beara, > >Our own Riobard writes: > >> Re. the writings I've, for many years, >> sent to the Beara Column, >> I have to say that age catches up with me too. >> So I've sent you the poem called "The Exile", >> and now I must say "Tooraloo". >> I hope that I've oft' made you happy. >> The tears nearly come to my eyes. >> But I can not go on forever, >> so, to all of my friends, >> 'tis GOODBYE. > >Riobard has assured me, in a private note, that he'll still be here >reading, and sometimes commenting. But as a young lad of 80 summers, >he has a lot to do and wishes to devote more time to doing it. So the >effort of keeping up the discussions here in the Beara list now falls >upon us. > >> My thanks to Bill Gawne and to all the other people >> who have done great work in charge over >> the Beara Column for many years. >> To them all I express a profound GRATIAS. > >It's a kind and generous thing you say, Riobard, but the plain truth >is none of us would be here reading this mailing list if not for your >life's work of dedicated scholarship. Whatever happens here in time >to come will be -- in some form or fashion -- a derivative of that >amazing body of work. > >-- Bill > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message