"The Corn is Green" poem, text?

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I haven’t seen the TV version of “The Corn is Green” since, well, a long time. Earlier today, I was reminded of Katharine Hepburn reading part of Morgan’s poem, and it made me curious how much of the text of the poem was included in the screenplay.

Is anyone familiar with the movie? I know the title line was part of the poem, but that’s all I can remember.

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I’ve never seen the Hepburn version, though I’d like to. When I was a teenager I was very fond of the Bette Davis version. I believe the phrase “The Corn Is Green” came from a school essay by Morgan that was poetic, but not written in verse. Only a few lines of the essay were read, as I recall.

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Thanks, pinkfreud. I remember really loving the film, though I couldn’t tell you why. I might have seen it when it was first on TV.

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The Corn Is Green is also featured in a Alex Baldwin book “How Long Have I Been Gone.” It was an off broadway play that was the big break for the lead in the novel.

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Information on the play can be found at Wikipedia. Doesn’t answer the question, per se, but maybe if you got ahold of the script of the play, that would give the best indication of how much of the fictional work in question was ever actually created.

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From Emlyn Williams’ original 1938 play:

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Thank you so much. I kept repeating “and underneath where the corn is green” but I couldn’t remember if that was the line.

Thank you all!