He came to think the original line was a lie, because we die whether we love or not, and the “or” made love a bargain with biology. The revised “and” is bleaker and, he felt, truer, and still not true enough to save the poem, which he called trash. History kept the first version. This book prints it and prints his rejection beside it, because a quotationary that hides a poet’s second thought is doing the editing Orwell warned about. The date remains the day the war began.