Excerpt from Stray Leaves: A Collection of Poems
Should you ask me, gentle Reader,
Very kind and gentle Reader, -
Easy, kind, and soft subscriber
To the volume now before you,
How I came to write this volume, -
What inducement made me print it, -
How I hope to pay the printer! -
I should answer, I should tell you,
In the strain of Hiawatha:
I had not the least intention,
When I penned my modest verses,
That they ever in a volume
About t...
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