Talk:Lapsus Calami (Apr 1891)/Of W. W. (Americanus)
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| Information about this edition | |
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| Edition: | Lapsus Calami (1891, 1st edition) |
| Source: | 1st edition at Internet Archive |
| Contributor(s): | S0208 |
| Level of progress: | Text complete 
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| Notes: | See below |
Notes
[edit]The original publication (under the title "After Walt Whitman") in The Granta (31 January 1891) is available at Google Books. The text there reads:
The clear cool note of cuckoo which has ousted the legitimate nestholder;
The whistle of the railway-guard, dismissing the train to the inevitable collision;
The maiden's monosyllablic reply to a polysyllabic proposal;
The fundamental note of the last Trump, which is presumably D natural;
All these are sounds to rejoice in, to let our big city re-echo with!
But better than all of them is the absolutely last chord of the apparently unexhaustible pianoforte player.