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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.