Thursday, November 17, 2022

And you must take it

What "you must take" in both cases is somebody's creative writing: Hawthorne's book of short stories and the narrator's unexpected burst into verse.

HAWTHORNE AND HIS MOSSES

Take these raspberries, and then I will give you some moss."—"Moss!" said I—"Yes, and you must take it to the barn with you, and good-bye to 'Dwight.'"

--The Literary World Volume 7 (August 17, 1850) page 125.

SCENES BEYOND THE WESTERN BORDER 

How dreary must be a great Commodore ,
Alone in the cabin of a seventy-four.
Be not alarmed ! I make a rhyme but once a year ; the idea came in that shape , and you must take it as it comes .

-- Southern Literary Messenger Volume 17 (June 1851) page 372; and Scenes and Adventures in the Army (Philadelphia, 1857) page 228.

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