Orchard Farming Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven Text Encoding by Tanya Clement Proofing and Additional Encoding by Tanya Clement TIFF images scanned at 600 dpi from manuscript pages and JPEGS derived by Tanya Clement Tanya Clement
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Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven's poetry is printed here with the support of the University of Maryland Libraries. Permission to reproduce images of Freytag-Loringhoven's manuscripts has also been generously granted by the libraries.

This poem and manuscript drafts are available from this site for demonstration purposes only. Though the intellectual property of Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven is in the public domain, all annotations and editorial commentary are copyrighted. They may not be reproduced without explicit permission from the copyright holder. For copyright information, please contact Tanya Clement.

 Drafts of this poem occupy series 3, box 3, folder 14. The poem was written between 1923 and 1927. To the editor's knowledge, it has not been reprinted or published.

Elements such as those represented graphically in this poem would not have presented well on the printed publication page. Indeed, it is quite often that, as the Baroness writes, "Print teeth bite."

Encoded documents and images are derived from manuscripts in the Papers of Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven in Special Collections at the University of Maryland, College Park, Libraries. In addition, individual pages or leaves of manuscripts are identified by the corresponding reel and frame numbers of the microfilm edition of the Freytag-Lorinhoven Papers.

DTD constructed from TEI P5 poetry base with tagsets for parallel segmentation, linking, figures, analysis, transcr, textcrit.

Line breaks have not been preserved in prose sections in order to facilitate parallel segmentation procedures.
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ABOUT ORCHARD FARMING LORE Orchard CONSOLING STUPID LESSON ' TO : MOURNERS - TO TO MOURNERS - SNOTTY SNOTTY SNUBBING SNOTTY YOUTH SNOBS SNOBS . EACH AGE PERIOD ' HAS ' COUTENANCE FACE FACE - ' GESTURE ' - COUNTENANCE . AGE - ' EXPRESSION - COUNTENANCE. FACE HAS FACE . COUNTENANCE GESTURE EXPRESSION FACE. THAT THAT WHO HAS WICH BEARS DROOPS DROOPS ' WITH ' WILTED WITHERED BLOOM - DROOPS NO FRUIT COUNTENACE - ' IS ' SPRING YOUTH SPRING SHELL - YOUTH DUMMY SHELL ' GHOSTTREE - ' EARTHRUBBISH. 'GHOST TREE - EARTH EARTHRUBBISH - - WITH WILTED BLOOM IS: SPRINGSHELL TREE GHOST EARTHRUBBISH. TO SPRING SPRING SEED SHALL BE OFFERD GIVEN ITS GIVEN SEED ITS FERTILIZER DUNG DUNG ' - SPACE - SHALL SPACE BE BURNING. IT - CAST OFFERD IT'S DUNG SPACE BURNING. IN CONSEQUENCE TRAST CONTRAST : THAT POPPS BRIMS POPPS THAT WHO BRIMS WITH FRUITS POPPS WITH FRUITS MATURED RESULT - GLOSSGREEN BUFF DAPPELD DINTED SPIKED SAFRON CRIMSON FLAME POPPY YELLOW MATURED RESULT: GLOSSGREEN - BUFF - ?? SULPHUR SAFRON - BRICK CRIMSON DAPPLED - DIMPLED DINTED FURRED FURRED SPIKED SKILLPAYING - PRAISE RIPE LADEN RIPE GLOSSGREEN - IS IS VENERABLE - ADORABLE UNTIL PLUCKED BARE - ! PLUCKED BARE . COCK -E EARD FOR AMONGST PRIDES GLOSSGREEN PRIDES BEAMING FOLIAGE GREENERY FOLIAGE ' FROM AMONGST PRIDEBEAMING FOLIAGES MONGST PRIDEBEAMING FOLIAGES LADEN WITH LORE FOLIAGES' BENEATH BENEATH FRISKY TRUSTY AFFECTIONATE SNICKERING CROWN S BENEATH PRIDES GREENERY SNICKERING CROWN CROWNS CROWNS' LADEN WITH LORE AMONGST PRIDES GLOSSGREEN FOLIAGE GOSSIPPING A TALKATIVE GREENERY GREENERY GREENERY RIFE FRISKY RIFE WITH LORE WITH LORE FRISKS GRINS WIPS FRISKS BOSS SQUATS FRISKS SQUATS GARDENER BOSS BEAMING LORD CREATION . MUNCHING APPLES COCKEARD GRINNING FOR MUNCHING ?? CREATION APPLES AMONGST FROM PRIDES FOLIAGE BENEATH BENEATH SNICKERING BEAMING CROWNS FOLIAGE CROWNS TALKATIVE GREENERY AFFECTIONATE LADEN FRISKY WITH LORE SQUATES GRINS LORD MUNCHING APPLES GRINNING COCKEARD E.V.F.L E.V.F.L