A garland of forgotten carols from a 19th-century short story
A very interesting article. I wonder if ‘the waiting world was still’ is a mis-memory of the line ‘the world in solemn stillness lay’ from the carol ‘It came upon a midnight clear’, written in 1849?
It could be! None of the other misquotations differed quite that much in sentence structure or the rhythm of the line, but it's still a possibility.
A very interesting article. I wonder if ‘the waiting world was still’ is a mis-memory of the line ‘the world in solemn stillness lay’ from the carol ‘It came upon a midnight clear’, written in 1849?
It could be! None of the other misquotations differed quite that much in sentence structure or the rhythm of the line, but it's still a possibility.