Rossetti Archive Textual Transcription
Document Title: The Cloud Confines, Unburdened (Princeton manuscript letter)
Author: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Date of Composition: 1876 September 1
Type of Manuscript: fair copy
Scribe: DGR
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- “Still we say as we go—
- ‘I'll hold her nozzle agin the bank,
- Strange to think by the way,
- Till the last galoot's ashore,
- Whatever there is to know,
- He seed his duty a dead sure thing,
- And went fer it thar and then
- And that we shall know one day'’.”
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