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Article: The Chicago Tribune Mary Schmich column.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
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- September 17, 2006
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Byline: Mary Schmich
Sep. 17--We're living in an age of word crimes, and Bob Dylan is the latest alleged felon.
With his new best-selling album, "Modern Times," Dylan stands accused of the enduring crime of word theft. His alleged victim is one Henry Timrod, a Southern Civil War poet who died in 1867.
When I read about Dylan in The New York Times last week (please note I'm attributing my source), I wasn't persuaded to convict him of plagiarism based on the primary example in the story.
From Dylan's lyrics: "More frailer than the flowers, these precious hours."
From a Timrod poem: "A round of precious hours/ Oh! here, where in ...