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Manuscript

Two (one in part), variant, about 1877, in pencil. A rough worksheeta manuscript Susan Dickinson received after ed's deathwas set down on a piece of wrapping paper on which had been written "Miss L Dickenson 10c" (h 338). The other half of this paper is h 243, containing the poem "Could mortal lip divine."

Notes

Two (one in part), variant, about 1877, in pencil. A rough worksheeta manuscript Susan Dickinson received after ed's deathwas set down on a piece of wrapping paper on which had been written "Miss L Dickenson 10c" (h338). The other half of this paper is h 243, containing the poem "Could mortal lip divine."

Textual Notes

2 Enlarges] submerges
3 tenement -] [tenement]s - (indicated with or also canceled)
3 away] added after line 4 was written
5 estranged] alarmed • submerged (with estranged underscored)
6 Seeks] gropes
6 faintly] softly
6] Seeks furtive for it's shore
8 that] interlined below it's
7-8 pines no more / for that Peninsula -] Loses sight / Of aught Peninsular -
alt 7-8 aught] the a made from o and the word repeated, interlined below
Division
1 of |
2 every |
3 the - |
4 the |
5 the |
5 first |

6 for |
7 acclimated] acclima - | ted
alt 6 furtive |
alt 7-8 aught |

Publications

SH (1914), 123, as an eight-line stanza, with alternatives adopted for lines 2 ("submerges"), 5 ("alarmed"), and 6 ("furtive"); an alternative for line 6 ("gropes") was used for line 7 and the one for lines 7-8 adopted in part ("Peninsular"). Poems (1955), 988-89 (A principal, B); CP (1960), 608 (A). (J1425)