Talk:Lapsus Calami (Apr 1891)/Of W. W. (Americanus)

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Edition: Lapsus Calami (1891, 1st edition)
Source: 1st edition at Internet Archive
Contributor(s): S0208
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Notes

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The original publication (under the title "After Walt Whitman") in The Granta (31 January 1891) is available at Google Books. The text there reads:

The clear cool note of cuckoo which has ousted the legitimate nestholder;
The whistle of the railway-guard, dismissing the train to the inevitable collision;
The maiden's monosyllablic reply to a polysyllabic proposal;
The fundamental note of the last Trump, which is presumably D natural;
All these are sounds to rejoice in, to let our big city re-echo with!
But better than all of them is the absolutely last chord of the apparently unexhaustible pianoforte player.

sbh (talk) 14:23, 10 July 2016 (UTC)Reply