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Amherst - Amherst Manuscript # 135; 136 - Art thou the thing I wanted? - asc:8315 - p. 1

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Amherst College, Amherst MA
Amherst Manuscript # 135; 136
Amherst - Amherst Manuscript # 135; 136 - Art thou the thing I wanted? - asc:8315 - p. 1

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BM (1945), 118, from the second draft (B), as two quatrains, with the alternatives adopted for lines 5 ("famished") and 8, made composite with line 4 from the first draft (A). Poems (1955), 891-92 (A principal, as an eight-line stanza, B principal, as two quatrains); CP (1960), 560 (A as an eight-line stanza, B as two quatrains, with the alternative for line 4 adopted). (J1282). Franklin Variorum 1998 (F1311B).
-History from Franklin Variorum 1998

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