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Verses, Fragments, and Notes [by William Allingham]

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The Poet immeasurably transcends his work.
Over the broad bright stage of Shakespeare's mind
A thousand dramas moved; in Milton's thought
Rose fifty epics; ah, what poems flew
From this dull world with Keats's, Shelley's, mind!