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This is a TEI-XML version of Emily Dickinson's poem "Tie the strings to my life, my Lord." It includes an apparatus based on her own variant readings. This exercise is an example of how one can use TEI to create digital editions of texts.
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DHBootcamp2019_TEICriticalEditions_DickinsonExample.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml-model href="http://www.tei-c.org/release/xml/tei/custom/schema/relaxng/tei_all.rng" type="application/xml" schematypens="http://relaxng.org/ns/structure/1.0"?>
<?xml-model href="http://www.tei-c.org/release/xml/tei/custom/schema/relaxng/tei_all.rng" type="application/xml"
schematypens="http://purl.oclc.org/dsdl/schematron"?>
<TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">
<teiHeader>
<fileDesc>
<titleStmt>
<title>A Digital Edition of Dickinson's Personal Manuscript of "Tie the strings to my life, my Lord"</title>
<author>Emily Dickinson</author>
<editor>William Potter</editor>
</titleStmt>
<publicationStmt>
<p>unpublished</p>
</publicationStmt>
<sourceDesc>
<listWit>
<witness xml:id="MS1"><desc>Dickinson Personal Manuscript</desc></witness>
</listWit>
<bibl>
<author>Emily Dickinson</author>
<title>Tie the strings to my life, my Lord</title>
<idno type="Franklin">338</idno>
</bibl>
</sourceDesc>
</fileDesc>
</teiHeader>
<text>
<body>
<div type="poem">
<lg type="stanza" subtype="quatrain">
<l n="1">Tie the strings to my Life, My Lord,</l>
<l n="2">Then, I am ready to go!</l>
<l n="3">Just a look at the horses -</l>
<l n="4">Rapid! That will do!</l>
</lg>
<lg type="stanza" subtype="quatrain">
<l n="5">Put me in on the <app>
<lem wit="#MS1">firmest</lem>
<rdg wit="#MS1"><del rend="strikethrough">lighest</del></rdg>
<rdg wit="#MS1">highest</rdg>
</app> side -</l>
<l n="6">So I shall never fall -</l>
<l n="7">For we must ride to the Judgment -</l>
<l n="8">
<app>
<lem wit="#MS1">And it's partly,</lem>
<rdg wit="#MS1">And it's many a mile - </rdg>
</app> down Hill -</l>
</lg>
<lg type="stanza" subtype="quatrain">
<l n="9">But never I mind the <app>
<lem wit="#MS1">steepest</lem>
<rdg wit="#MS1">Bridges</rdg>
</app>-</l>
<l n="10">And never I mind the Sea -</l>
<l n="11">Held fast in Everlasting Race -</l>
<l n="12">By my own Choice, and Thee -</l>
</lg>
<lg type="stanza" subtype="quatrain">
<l n="13">Good bye to the Life I used to live -</l>
<l n="14">And the World I used to know -</l>
<l n="15"><app>
<lem wit="#MS1">And kiss the Hills, for me, just once -</lem>
<rdg wit="#MS1">Here's a keepsake for the Hills</rdg>
</app></l>
<l n="16"><app>
<lem wit="#MS1">Then -</lem>
<rdg wit="#MS1">Now</rdg>
<note resp="Franklin">The reading here is placed in-line with the lemma.</note>
</app> I am ready to go!</l>
</lg>
</div>
</body>
</text>
</TEI>
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