Your first prayer you learned by heart - did you recite it every night before you went to sleep?

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Lostpoet · M

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It only took me an afternoon.

I had to memorize the 13 articles of faith when i was a kid so memorizing things is kind of second nature to me. Like I don't even keep a library card I just have the number memorized.

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@Lostpoet

Just looked into that. That's very impressive that you could do that - at any age, really.

Lostpoet · M

@SW-User To be honest from the age of 8-15 i could only ever remember the first five. But at one point I had them all memorized. I can recite about ten poems by heart some as long as Poe's the Raven.

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@Lostpoet

Again - very impressive! I can recite a few (not all) lines of She Walks in Beauty. That's it - and I remember the family's first phone number from 70 yrs ago. LOL

Lostpoet · M

@SW-User She walks in beauty like the nigh. I know what poem you are talking about but I've never tried to memorize it.

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There's one line I like because of the roller coaster way it rolls off the tongue - -

Which heaven to gaudy day denies (the dee day dee of it)

Lostpoet · M

@SW-User I like that too.