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Denzil place

a story in verse. By Violet Fane [i.e. M. M. Lamb]

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This was the usual strain in which he wrote
To those in London who were then in power;
“A useful county man,” they said of him,
“Not brilliant,—taking people by the ear,
“But staunch, and true, and English to the bone!”