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Document Title: Verse Fragment from the Continent (draft manuscript)
Author: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Date of Composition: 1849?
Type of Manuscript: holograph draft

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more about Verse Fragment from the Continent
  • This Squat cut[?] hedge continues to the Common with/along the Road
  • On to the common see where they goad
  • The Asses towards us here as their heads start
  • first up the hill against the sky apart
  • from each other, hey! [?] come up this bank
  • we can see over the hill to the last/further rank
  • of those straight young poplars growing propped beside
  • the ways they would have done for me I tried
  • for some such trees in my last picture which kept
  • 10me so indoors like yesterday weve left
  • all that now though and coming just from [Home?]
  • our walk along the day with p
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
Source File: 46-1848.sangms.rad.xml
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