<html><head></head><body><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">All very well Mrs. Diller's advice <br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">to marry a partner same age as yourself <br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">as long as you find one still fairly nice,<br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">not one of such bulk their weight broke the shelf</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">they might have been waiting on, a long list, <br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">gradually however getting harder and colder <br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">and making arrangements arriving late <br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">and even bigger, brassier, bolder ---<br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Given this page's purpose I'd ask whether <br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">you might manage to make music together <br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">and if nervous, not desirous of taunting fate,<br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">with lead sheets and chords brought in a folder.<br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Together 40 years, not a day too much <br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">the song says, calling the wife the "dear old Dutch"</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">(Cockney slang for mate, rhymes with "Dutch plate") <br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">suggesting Bandsman Brandsma on a polder? <br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Agatha Christie would however insist</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">you do best to marry an archaeologist -- <br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">like him with whom she enjoyed the married state, <br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">who'll appreciate you the more as you get older. <br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Robert R. Calder <br></div></div></body></html>