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Amherst - Amherst Manuscript # 159 - Contained in this short life - asc:9479 - p. 1

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Amherst Manuscript # 159
Amherst - Amherst Manuscript # 159 - Contained in this short life - asc:9479 - p. 1

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BM (1945), 265, as two eight-line stanzas, the first from the fair copy (C), the second from lines 1-8 of the earliest draft (A) with an alternative for line 3 ("Terrible") adopted; the three versions were reproduced in facsimile (pp. xiii-xiv). Poems (1955), 813-14 (A, B, C principal); CP (1960), 518-19 (C). (J1165). Franklin Variorum 1998 (F1175A).
-History from Franklin Variorum 1998

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