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Unread 01-14-2004, 08:56 PM
Jan D. Hodge Jan D. Hodge is offline
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Temperance Lecturer

Drink to me only with thine eyes
While I get drunk and moralize.


Culinary

I struck the board and cried, "No more;
I've et yer possum stew before!"


P.S.: These are both first lines, but I have to go with Jerry's interpretation. First line is not specified, and we have the example(s) of Julie herself. While one <u>could</u> argue that each of Khayyam's quatrains is an individual poem, "By the shores of Gitchee Gumee" comes well into the third chapter of "Song of Hiawatha."

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