I shall examine one of them here in more detail. Similar criticism could be made of any of them. Some plagiarists alter the poem, leaving the attribution to the person they believe to be the original author. Kasmer Kenneth Kuri , a carpenter, published a personalized version on the Internet, seemingly dated 20 January 1944. This may mislead people into thinking that this is the oldest version of the material.
Closer examination shows that to be unlikely.
The date, in view of the autobiographical information supplied, is probably Kuri's date of birth. Kuri has added a religious message in the last few lines, which is at odds with the secular tone of all other main chain versions. The first three quarters of his version remain essentially identical to Stair's poem. Were the original author to be writing from a religious perspective one would expect that this significant factor in the author's world view would have played a defining role in the poem from the beginning, or would have been omitted altogether. That is not so here, suggesting that this material has been tacked on to an extant poem.