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Wood-thing

Does anybody know the meaning of 'wood-thing' in the poem Love Song by Dorothy Parker?
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My love, he's mad, and my love, he's fleet,
And a wild young wood-thing bore him!
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http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/1554.html

Helmut
  

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[/nq] I'd have thought it probably referred to a dryad. )

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At 20:05:15 on Sun, 19 Jul 2009, Helmut Jasper
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[nq:1]Does anybody know the meaning of 'wood-thing' in the poem Love Song by Dorothy Parker?[/nq]
I'd have thought it probably referred to a dryad.

Molly Mockford
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[nq:2]: Does anybody know the meaning of 'wood-thing' in the poem Love Song by Dorothy Parker?[/nq]
[nq:1]I'd have thought it probably referred to a dryad.[/nq]
Me too.

John Hall "Hard work often pays off after time, but laziness always pays off now." Anon
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[nq:2]Does anybody know the meaning of 'wood-thing' in the poem Love Song by Dorothy Parker?[/nq]
[nq:1]I'd have thought it probably referred to a dryad.[/nq]
She was only the woodman's daughter but she had a dry advice...

Om Namah Shivaya
David
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At 06:56:34 on Sat, 1 Aug 2009, Paul (Email Removed) wrote in (Email Removed):
[nq:2]Om Namah Shivaya[/nq]
[nq:1]David, what's that Sanskrit sounding last line in your post?[/nq]
might help.
Molly Mockford
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