Dear Doc

The ref may have come about because of the popularity of Robert Southey's "The Cataract of Lodore". It is a technically fun poem that is a great study for prosody, onomatopoeia and so on, and hence has frequently been a standard text for children at school. Southey, if you remember, was Poet Laureate before Wordsworth, and today, unfortunately for his reputation, is considered one of the minor Romantic poets.

Check this url for the text:

http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/652.html

cheer

the sunshine warrior