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Wednesday, March 2, 2022

Lines Alter'd, Lines Dropp'd (11)

     From William Wordsworth's poem "Daffodils" 
originally entitled "Daffy Dilys: Indentured Char"  

I wandered lonely as a cloud
who'd launder'd only Massa's shroud...

     From Walt Whitman's book of verse "Drum Taps" 
originally entitled "Bum Raps: Wrongfully Jailed Florae" 

When lilacs last in the dooryard bloomed
then lied back, cast into the boneyard -- doom'd...

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