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13 4 my good critic in which he says - The Hepatica is a gem. There is but one thing in it I would have changed, - that
is the skies of May , as April is the month of the hepatica. I rec'd his letter at El Reno, and as I had several hours to
wait there in the Hotel Kerfoot? for a train, I rewrote the verse as follows To the Hepatica The earth all winter sleeping
lies Then wakes from dreams of blue To find, above her, April skies, And on her bosom? - you