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Thread #26954   Message #435271
Posted By: Noreen
07-Apr-01 - 12:58 PM
Thread Name: Help: when I was in my prime - symbolism
Subject: RE: Help: when I was in my prime - symbolism
Yes, Joe, I've heard that line as
If I live for one year more.

The only other significant difference is in the penultimate verse:
And the willow tree shall weep and the willow tree shall whine

(which maintains the rhyming structure.) Don't have any witten source for this though.

Noreen