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The poetical works of Robert Stephen Hawker

Edited from the original manuscripts and annotated copies together with a prefatory notice and bibliography by Alfred Wallis

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ON READING LORD DERBY'S TRANSLATION OF HOMER.

Seven ancient cities strove for Homer's birth:
Let no such rivalry divide the earth:
Hark how the bard in Stanley's audience sung,
And claimed our language for his native tongue!
1865.