Note 54 — Dionysus in Dismay STANLEY P. CHASE
Reading edition
E. E. Cummings’s poem, previously referred to, is printed by him as follows (Tulips and Chimneys, New York, 1924, p. 78):
i was considering how within night’s loose sack a star’s nibbling in- fin -i- tes- i -mal- ly devours darkness the hungry star which will e -ven tu- al -ly jiggle the bait of dawn and be jerked into eternity. when over my head a shooting star Bur s (t into a stale shriek like an alarm-clock)