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The literary remains of the late Willis Gaylord Clark

Including the Ollapodiana Papers, the Spirit Of Life, and a selection from his various prose and poetical writings

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[All, all is gloom! and dandies in the dumps]

‘All, all is gloom! and dandies in the dumps,
Dance in responsive dullness to their pumps,
Like some town hack, that, spavined, old, and blind,
Trots to the wheezing of his broken wind.’