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The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Buchanan

In Two Volumes. With a Portrait

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[He hurries not! Perchance some sense
Of danger may detain him hence.

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He would not hasten, if he knew
The curious sight he has to view.
Few mortal husbands, red or white,
Would care to wear his shoes this night.]