Re: Yes we have souls...(brain bits)

Lee Daniel Crocker (lcrocker@mercury.colossus.net)
Tue, 20 Apr 1999 14:43:22 -0700 (PDT)

> My appreciation for your abundant and playful offerings also inspires
> the tiniest of cautionary notes: consider that tattered fragment of verse:
>
> "I'm burning my candle at both ends,
> It cannot last the night.
> Da dada da dada da dada da da (I forget this line)
> But oh, what a beautiful light!"

I'm certain that's Emily Dickinson, "my candle burns at both ends" (say what you will about her sentiments, she at least gets the meter right), but I couldn't find it on the web at first try. You may have better luck.

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