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The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Buchanan

In Two Volumes. With a Portrait

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Slowly, so vilely it is writ,
Her unskill'd eyes decipher it;
So worn it is with snow and rain,
That scarce a letter now is plain,
And every red and ragged mark
Is smudged with handling, dim, and dark.