Talk:William Ernest Henley

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The whole article is a mess. Unrelated pictures are captioned with excerpts from poems, the markup is nonsensical and inconsistent! I hope someone who is able to will clean this up! 88.69.134.225 13:32, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Looks OK to me. ~ UDScott 15:04, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Seems a bit cluttered, but I wouldn't lose any sleep over it. ~ Ningauble 15:19, 5 December 2011 (UTC)

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Friends.. Old Friends... - what are the correct last two lines?
I have added a section of a larger piece of verse, "Friends.. Old Friends..." to the page. I have typed it as it appears in a printed text I found on Google. But the last two lines don't make sense: What is it ends With friends? I suspect the original might have been "What if it ends / with friends?" - (a handwritten f can look like an s) - but I have had to adhere to the version I found as I can't insert an improvement. If someone has the time to spare, they might like to try to track down copies of this poem printed elsewhere, to see if there is a different version of the last two lines which suggests a typo was inadvertently incorporated in the version I found. Wheatfromchaff (talk) 10:48, 9 April 2021 (UTC)

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Pictures
I have substituted a drawing of the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary as the second picture on the page (replacing a "skull" picture). This hospital is where Lister treated Henley over a long period. This same building is illustrated on the cover of A Book of Verses (1888). Wheatfromchaff (talk) 11:06, 12 April 2021 (UTC)