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Spock's poetry: Maiden Wine[]

The episode article claims Nimoy "composed" this song, whereas this article says he "wrote" it. Usually, the verb "write" refers to lyrics, "compose" to tune. If both lyrics and tune are by Nimoy, both articles should reflect this. -- Leonard James Akaar 01:57, December 20, 2009 (UTC)

(from Talk:Plato's Stepchildren (episode))

Take care, young ladies, and value your wine
Be watchful of young men in their velvet prime
Deeply they'll swallow from your finest kegs
Then swiftly be gone
Leaving bitter dregs
Ahh-ah-ah-ah
Bitter dregs

With smiling words and tender touch
Man offers little and asks for so much
He loves in the breathless excitement of night
Then leaves with your treasure
In cold morning light
Ahh-ah-ah-ah
In cold morning light
I read somewhere a long time ago that Leonard Nimoy penned the words to that poem, and that it appears in one of his books pf poetry. But I can't find any reference. — Loadmaster 00:23, November 20, 2011 (UTC)
He sings it (with a slightly different musical theme) on his studio album The Touch of Leonard Nimoy (1969), which seems to imply that he did indeed write it. — Loadmaster 00:28, November 20, 2011 (UTC)
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