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Thread #35933   Message #3609168
Posted By: Jim Dixon
12-Mar-14 - 03:00 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: My Flower, My Companion and Me
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: My Flower, My Companion and Me
Pedant alert!

From an article, "Department of Rhetoric" by Homer B. Sprague, in The Student's Journal, Vol 34 No 2 (New York: Andrew J. Graham & Co., Feb 1905), page 113:

More [errors].
"We have met, we have loved, we have parted—
My flowers, my companions, and me."
—From the song Fairest Flowers, by J. H. Brown and James Power.

Cured.
We have met, we have loved, we have parted,
My flowers, my companions, and I.
—(The sense is, My flowers, my companions, and I have met, loved, etc. Therefore say I, not 'me.'—Ed.)

[Interesting because it establishes a date and a possible source.]