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It's from the poem "Maude Mullins".
-----Original Message-----
From: David D Mulroy [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 9:11 AM
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Subject: Re: "It might have been."
I think Bret Harte is quoting an earlier source. By chance, I ran across
the quote in one of the Reed and Kellogg books, as a sentence for
diagraming: "Of all sad words of tongue or pen the saddest are these: 'It
might have been.'" They attribute it to Whittier. John Greenleaf, right?
On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, Paul E. Doniger wrote:
> The line is by Bret Harte (ca. the 1860s):
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> If, of all the words of tongue and pen,
> The saddest are, "It might have been,"
> More sad are these we daily see:
> "It is, but hadn't ought to be!"
>
> from "Mrs. Judge Jenkins"
>
> How about an analysis of " ... hadn't ought to be." There's an interesting
construction!
>
> Paul E. Doniger
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: jacarta
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2001 2:30 PM
> Subject: "It might have been."
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> How would you analyze the verb phrase in the sentence
> It might have been.
>
> By the way, does anyone know the title and author
> of the poem that includes a verse that goes something like
> the "saddest words are 'it might have been'."
> Thanks.
>
> --José Santos
>
>
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