The Poetical Works of Ebenezer Elliott Edited by his Son Edwin Elliott ... A New and Revised Edition: Two Volumes |
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ON AN ACTIVE TRADESMAN.
This headless column on a stone—What may this mournful shaft betoken?
Pale orphans answer, with their moan,
“The key-stone of an arch is gone!
A mother's heart is broken.”
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