[Ads-l] Antedating of "skyway"

[Steven Losie]

SKYWAY (OED3, 1900)

The following early instance has "skyway" as two separate words:

[begin quote]
Though thy sky way be darkened ere set of sun / Forget not, in beauty, its
course was begun
[end quote]
Source: New Hampshire Statesman (Concord, NH), 13 Dec 1834, p.4, col.1
Article title: Poetry. "Memory."
Author: M.S.N.
Database: Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers (Gale)

The following instance has "skyway" written as a single word:

[begin quote]
The lark sings golden vespers on its skyway towery, / Robed in the
morning's splendour, like a saintly stole.
[end quote]
Source: Poems of Life, 1858, p.15
Poem title: "A Poem of Life"
Author: Richard Sheldon Chadwick (as Sheldon Chadwick)
Publisher: G. Routledge & Co. (London)
Database: Google Books
https://books.google.com/books?id=I14CAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA15&dq=%22skyway%22

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