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Re: 97 lines?

From: Craig Heath <craig@sco.COM>
Date: Mon, 9 May 94 17:56:58 BST
Subject: Re: 97 lines?
To: love-hounds@uunet.UU.NET

> Date: Mon, 9 May 1994 04:10:17 -0400
> From: mbuly@math.hr (Mirko Bulaja)

> I hope this won't be lost in heap of KonvenTion impressions.

I'll spare you from mine, as I'm sure plenty of other people won't :-)

> What does the following line (Army Dreamers) mean:

> Tears o'er a tin box

I'm assuming you're not a native English speaker, so I don't mean to be
patronising.  It simply refers to a mother crying over her dead son -
"o'er" being a poetic contraction of "over", and "a tin box" being the
sort of coffin that a dead soldier's remains would be flown home in.

		- Craig @ SCO near London.