I give you a new definition of a sentence:
A sentence is a sound in itself on which other sounds called words may be strung.
You may string words together without a sentence sound to string them on just as you may tie clothes together by the sleeve and stretch them without a clothes line between two trees, but—it is bad for the clothes.
2/22/1914
THE FIRST OF MAY
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In A. E. Housman’s Last Poems, we find this: The First of May The orchards
half the way From home to Ludlow fair Flowered on the first of May In Mays
when ...
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