Friday, November 16, 2007

England's Queen Mother

"President Reagan and Queen Elizabeth immediately clicked on Reagan's state visit to Britain in 1982. But Reagan also gained another royal admirer - the Queen Mother. At a dinner in Windsor Palace - though the two were sitting four places away from each other - they discovered they shared a mutual love of American poet Robert Service. The two began to recite "The Cremation of Sam McGee" At the end, they were almost shouting the closing refrain:
The Northern Lights have seen queer sights,
But the queerest they ever did see
Was that night on the marge of Lake Lebarge
I cremated Sam McGree."
(Ref: James C. Humes)

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