28A. A Little Rosewood Casket- Poe (WV) 1926
28A A LITTLE ROSEWOOD CASKET*
Communicated by Miss Margaret Nestor, Oceana, Wyoming County, 1926. Obtained fronr Mlss Agnes Poe. Reported alno by the Eon. J. S. Laklnn Charleston; obtainod from one of the girls in the Industrial Home at
Industrlal Harrison County. A third text received from Mrs. Edith
Hamrick, East Bank, Kanawha County. Text identical with B, whloh see.
Major. Ionian.
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In that little rosewood casket,
That ls resting on my stand,
Is a paokage of old letters,
ffritten by a oherished hand.
In 28A, sovoral discrepancies botween the regular text and that under
the musio are in the original menuscript. From the same source comes the varLation in 28B, Ilne 4 of 'by' in rogular text and tinr in toxt undor musie (Herzog).
*text fragmontary