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Amherst - Amherst Manuscript # 381 - The boblink is gone - the rowdy of the meadow - asc:6512 - p. 1

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Amherst Manuscript # 381
Amherst - Amherst Manuscript # 381 - The boblink is gone - the rowdy of the meadow - asc:6512 - p. 1

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BM (1945), 63, as an eleven-line stanza, with the alternative adopted for line 6 ("He swung upon the Decalogue"); the manuscript was reproduced in facsimile (xviii-xix). Poems (1955), 1096-97, unredacted; CP (1960), 659, with alternatives adopted for lines 4 ("boldly") and 5-6 ("When supplicating mercy / In a portentous way/He swung upon the Decalogue"), arranged as a ten-line stanza. (J1591). Franklin Variorum 1998 (F1620A).
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Amherst Manuscript # 381
Franklin # 1620
Johnson Poems # 1591

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Box 5 Folder 22

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The boblink is gone - the rowdy of the meadow

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https://acdc.amherst.edu/view/asc:6509

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asc:6512

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J1591 - The Bobolink is gone -- the Rowdy of the Meadow --

The Bobolink is gone -- the Rowdy of the Meadow --
And no one swaggers now but me --
The Presbyterian Birds can now resume the Meeting
He gaily interrupted that overflowing Day
boldly
When opening the Sabbath in their afflictive Way
He bowed to Heaven instead of Earth
to every Heaven above
to all the saints he knew
every God he knew
And shouted Let us pray --
and bubbled let us pray --

He recognized his maker -- overturned the Decalogue --

He swung upon the Decalogue
And shouted Let us pray --

When supplicating mercy
In a portentous way -- portentous way

Gay from an unannointed Twig Sweet from a surreptitious Twig
He gurgled -- Let us pray --
bubbled

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First Line/Title: The Bobolink is gone -- the Rowdy of the Meadow --
Date: 1883
Edition: Johnson Poems 1955
Number: J1591

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Year: 1883
Manuscript: Manuscript: About 1883 (Bingham 107-60). No attempt is here made to construct a poem from this very unfinished worksheet draft.
Publications: Publication: BM (1945), 63. An eleven-line stanza is created selecting from among the many alternative readings. The manuscript 15 reproduced in facsimile, BM, xviii-xix.

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F1620A - The bobolink is gone - the rowdy of the meadow

The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Variorum Edition, Franklin, 1998