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(51a) Promise This, When you be Dying, J648, Fr762

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Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886. Poems: Packet XI, Mixed Fascicles. Includes 14 poems, written in ink, ca. 1861-1863. MS Am 1118.3 (50a-54A). Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
(51a) Promise This, When you be Dying, J648, Fr762
Publication History
UP (1935), 90-91, with the last stanza as a quatrain. The alternatives for lines (1) 15-16 ("in" begins line 16) and 18 ("entice") and the alternatives for lines (2) 27 and 32-33 ("Worthiest") were adopted. Poems (1955), 498-500; CP (1960), 321-22. MB (1981), 821-23, in facsimile. (J648). Franklin Variorum 1998 (F762A).
-History from Franklin Variorum 1998

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