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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pat P, post: 91653, member: 201&quot;]Thanks so much for your efforts, Fig! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>So I was wrong thinking the version I saw that started with the second verse was the earliest I saw. I guess it will remain a puzzle on why the different versions. </p><p><br /></p><p>A related question... in the early to mid-1800s, were written works by women usually credited to them? The reason I ask, is that a book I posted about earlier in Antiquers was written by a woman but her name was never given... it just said the author was &quot;a mother.&quot; </p><p><br /></p><p>It makes me wonder if bias against women in those days would have gone so far as to not give them credit for their work? And if that were the case, perhaps it explains no author given for this poem? It wouldn&#039;t prove that the poet was Miss Post, but at least might explain why there&#039;s no credit given.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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