Saturday, January 03, 2004

 
Mr. Miniver?

Yet another embarrassing moment happened upon reading Corner posts nominating "Mrs. Miniver" as one of the greatest "conservative movies of all time." I've barely *heard* of the Missus, let alone known her in the (movie)theatrical sense. I *did* get "Miniver Cheevy" right on some Jeopardy-like game way back in college. Like, "who gives a rats ass?" and all that, but here, gang, are the Google-purloined pixels, especially for those "conservatives" who long for the days of yore.

"1Miniver Cheevy, child of scorn,
2 Grew lean while he assailed the seasons;
3He wept that he was ever born,
4 And he had reasons.


5Miniver loved the days of old
6 When swords were bright and steeds were prancing;
7The vision of a warrior bold
8 Would set him dancing.


9Miniver sighed for what was not,
10 And dreamed, and rested from his labors;
11He dreamed of Thebes and Camelot,
12 And Priam's neighbors.


13Miniver mourned the ripe renown
14 That made so many a name so fragrant;
15He mourned Romance, now on the town,
16 And Art, a vagrant.


17Miniver loved the Medici,
18 Albeit he had never seen one;
19He would have sinned incessantly
20 Could he have been one.


21Miniver cursed the commonplace
22 And eyed a khaki suit with loathing;
23He missed the mediæval grace
24 Of iron clothing.


25Miniver scorned the gold he sought,
26 But sore annoyed was he without it;
27Miniver thought, and thought, and thought,
28 And thought about it.


29Miniver Cheevy, born too late,
30 Scratched his head and kept on thinking;
31Miniver coughed, and called it fate,
32 And kept on drinking."

Not that moi resembleth those remarks;(hmmm is a semi-colon the proper punctuation here?) nope, Walter Mitty is (sigh) more like it....