News at Eleven: "More frailer than the flowers,

these precious hours," the 65-year-old Mr. Dylan sings in "When the Deal Goes Down," one of the songs on "Modern Times." Compare that to these lines from Timrod's "Rhapsody of a Southern Winter Night":

A round of precious hours
Oh! here, where in that summer noon I basked
And strove, with logic frailer than the flowers.

from The New York Times: Who’s This Guy Dylan Who’s Borrowing Lines From Henry Timrod?

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