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There have been ups (like the time when we had a mailing service that kept adding new and renewing subscribers' names and addresses without removing the old ones, leading us not only into a state of euphoria contemplating our 20,000 paid subscribers but, at the same time, into near bankruptcy paying the attendent increased printing and postage costs without the expected revenues); and, of course, there have been downs (like falling behind so far in the publishing schedule that we changed the dates of the issues from May, September, December, March to Summer, Autumn, Winter, Spring (as in Of Thee I Sing! ), and the dismay and disappointment at the down-marketing of The New Yorker , once a stalwart—if expensive—source of new subscribers, now—still expensive—catering to the pretentious philistine market).
Where screenwriters Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard made Gwyneth Paltrow the inspiration for the young poet's love-struck "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?"
The loving yet formal thee and thou and the closing -eth syllable create a melody, a rhythm, a smooth cadence truly reflecting our beloved shepherd's care, and ignite a feeling of intimacy with him, a mutuality of feeling that the -s ending completely wants--Excuse me!
Does the modern reader really lack the great “erudition” necessary to be able to understand a few old English words and forms--What about “My country 'tis of thee”?
-- and is it indeed true that, in the rather awkward phraseology of the translator, “the language is not altered with doing without thou and thee”?
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