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Edgar
Allan Poe (?), "[Summer and Winter]," "Gimble" manuscript,
fragment, @1826-1831 |
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How chang'd the scene -- but now the Summer reign'd,
her varied tints prevail'd throughout triumphant. Here where the
beauteous
rosebud sat a briar frowns -- the woodbine too hath lost her suit of
brilliant
green -- the leafless grove is silent, desolate! No songster cheers
with
merry note the passing hour. The hum of Bees is hus'd and all around
proclaims,
tht Winter is at hand -- how clear.
[The attribution of this fragment relies on the claim of an old
bookseller.
T. O. Mabbott includes it in his collection of Poe's tales, with the
note:
"In the absence of a complete history of the manuscript, judgement on
its
authenticity as a product of Poe's pen must be suspended, but I see
nothing
in the handwriting that seems to me impossible for Poe" (Tales, 1978,
p.
5). The manuscript fragment is in the Gimbel collection of the Free
Library
of Philadelphia.]
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