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Peter Brooks  
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 More options Oct 15 2012, 12:16 am
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From: Peter Brooks <peter.h.m.bro...@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2012 21:16:23 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Mon, Oct 15 2012 12:16 am
Subject: Re: Benison
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On Oct 15, 4:57 am, Steve Hayes <hayes...@telkomsa.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Oct 2012 22:38:18 +0000 (UTC), Lewis

> <g.kr...@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
> >I was reading an interview with Sir Terry

> ><http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/terry-...>

> >And I came across, "So to be able to make a living out of writing is a benison".

> >Is this a usual word in BrE, or just something he picked up in
> >researching Dodger? I'm pretty sure I've never seen it before.

> I recall seeing it in poetry, perhaps because the poet was looking for a word
> to rhyme with venison.

I thought that GMH was likely to have used it, though I couldn't
remember a particular poem. So I had a look and found this grace from
Herrick - not that unexpected:

Here a little child I stand,
Heaving up my either hand;
Cold as paddocks though they be,
Here I lift them up for Thee,
For a benison to fall
On our meat and on us all. Amen.
   Robert Herrick, [Another Grace for a Child, 1647]


 
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