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Laughter from a Cloud

By Walter Raleigh with a foreword by Hilary Raleigh

Raleigh, Walter Alexander (1861-1922)

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WORD AND QUESTION GAME

[I have heard no word of my darling Jim]

THE HAUNTED HOUSE

[“What is the use of waiting?”]

[How far is it to London? Well, my friend]

[When I go to my wardrobe and pull out my clo'es]

[Life rang the bell to call the people in]

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OCCASIONAL VERSE

JOHANNESBURG, NEW YEAR, 1896

TO A LADY WITH AN UNRULY AND ILL-MANNERED DOG

STANS PUER AD MENSAM

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A Literature Lesson. SIR PATRICK SPENS

I.

II.

LINES SUGGESTED BY AN EDITION OF BLAKE'S POEMS

THE BATTLE HYMN OF KENSIT'S MEN

TO PROFESSOR H. A. STRONG, LL. D.

WISHES OF AN ELDERLY MAN

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I write to you because you won't write to me:

“He that answers a Friend's letter
Makes the Morning Star his debtor.”