From: LouisFors <LouisFors@aol.com>
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Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 10:16:49 EDT
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Ben wrote:

> 
>  Can anyone help with ED's meaning here? I keep thinking I have it, and
>  then a gust of wind sends the whole edifice crashing:
>  
>  	     Trifles--like Life--and the Sun, we Acknowledge
>  	in Church, but the Love that demeans them, having no
>  	Confederate, dies without a Term.
>  	                                   Emily.
>  
>  That's the whole letter, dated 1874 by Johnson. Thanks for any guesses.
>  
>  Ben Friedlander
>  
Ben:

I suspect Mother's Day may have slowed down responses to your query.  I wonder
if you, the one who studied the letter the most, and the one by preparation
the best to analyze it, would you tell us what you make of it?  Thanks.  (I
send your original post in case others haven't studied it.)

Louis Forsdale