as performed by the flite speech synthesizer and some shell scripts
Not quite as good as having the late Prof. Morgan recite it to you himself — one of the few high points of my school experience — but you take what you can get in this economy.
MERRY CHRISTMAS
*** FORTRAN STOP
I first came across this poem back in the sixties when I purchased John Ciardi’s paperback, “How Does a Poem Mean?”
This collection should be required reading by any student or teacher who is drawn to poetry and whose appeal is so enhanced by Ciardi’s commentary.
And, of course, this poem
shows us how words can be put together in such a winning and affable combination.
Let’s hear it for that struggling but determined computer!
My comment is contained, oddly enough, in my comments.
To paraphrase the last line of Peter Vierick’s great poem, “Vale, from Carthage”:
“What’s left but this to say of any (poem)?”
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