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F759A - Her sweet turn to leave the homestead
Her Sweet turn to leave
the Homestead
Came the Darker Way -
Carriages - Be Sure - and
Guests - too
True -
But for Holiday
'Twas more pitiful Endeavor
Than did swelling
Loaded Sea
O'er the Curls attempt to
caper
It had cast away -
Never Bride had such
Assembling -
Never kinsmen kneeled
To salute so fair a
Forehead -
Garland be indeed -
fitter for the feet
Fitter Feet - of Her before us -
Than whatever Brow
Art of Snow - or Trick
of Lily
Ever could endow -
Possibly bestow
Of Her Father - Whoso
claim
ask Her -
He shall seek as high
As the Palm - that serve
the Desert -
To obtain the sky -
Distance - be Her only
Signal
Motion -
If 'tis Nay - or Yes -
Acquiescence - or Demurral -
Whosoever guess -
He - must pass the Crystal Angle
That obscure Her face -
He - must have achieved in
person
Equal Paradise -
About Work
- First Line/Title
- Her sweet turn to leave the homestead
- Date
- 1863
- Edition
- Franklin Variorum 1998
- Number
- F759A
- Textual Notes
- (1)
3 True] too
6 Loaded] swelling
13 Fitter Feet - of Her] fitter for the feet
16] Ever could endow -
17 ask] claim
21 Motion] Signal
(2)
25 He] first
25 Angle] limit
26 obscure] divide -
Division
1 leave |
3 and |
7 to |
9 such |
11 a |
12 indeed - ||
15 Trick |
17 Whoso |
19 serve |
21 only |
26 face - ||
27 in |
alt (1) 13 for |
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Work Metadata
- Manuscript
- About late 1863, in Fascicle 34 (h 52).
- Fascicle
- 34 - 4
- Notes
- About late 1863, in Fascicle 34 (h52).
- Textual Notes
- (1)
3 True] too
6 Loaded] swelling
13 Fitter Feet - of Her] fitter for the feet
16] Ever could endow -
17 ask] claim
21 Motion] Signal
(2)
25 He] first
25 Angle] limit
26 obscure] divide -
Division
1 leave |
3 and |
7 to |
9 such |
11 a |
12 indeed - ||
15 Trick |
17 Whoso |
19 serve |
21 only |
26 face - ||
27 in |
alt (1) 13 for | - Publications
- UP (1935), 127-28, with the alternatives for lines 3, 6, 16, and 17 adopted and the order of the last two stanzas reversed. Poems (1955), 500-501; CP (1960), 322-23, with the alternative for line 3 adopted. MB (1981), 817-19, in facsimile. (J649)
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