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Document Title: The One Dark Shade
Author: William Michael Rossetti
Author: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Date of Composition: 1848
Type of Manuscript: fair copy corrected
Scribe: DGR

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Image of page [1r] page: [1r]
Manuscript Addition: (7 m.)
Editorial Description: Notation at lower right indicating it was written in seven minutes.
Manuscript Addition: 41
Editorial Description: DGR has writtn this number in the upper right corner.
Manuscript Addition: 2 / 1
Editorial Description: In line 10, the words "her soul" are underlined with a "2" written above, and the words "from its depths" are underlined with a "1" written above. This probably indicates that the line should read "Yet from its depths her soul ceased not to pine".
more about The One Dark Shade
44. The one dark Shade
  • The grass she sat amidst was very green
  • And the sky over her was broad and blue;
  • The waves far off were not of any hue
  • That you could say your eyes had ever for sure you yet had seen,
  • Dark here, blue there, with ever-changing sheen;
  • And all around there stretched out to her view
  • The trees waving which breezes seemed to woo
  • To speak of old past things which once had been.
  • God's earth brightened about her, as was fit;
  • 10 Yet her soul from its depths ceased not to pine
  • Hurrying to and fro like a sear sere leaf
  • That whirls hither and thither in the whine
  • Of Autumn's hunting winds: where she did sit
  • There was a holy space shadlowed by grief.
W.M.
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
Source File: 39-1848.dukems.rad.xml
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