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A Collection of Poems. By Ernest Radford

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A SCIENCE OF HISTORY

Think you it would be good indeed
(Surveying on the walls of Time
The hurried finger trace) to climb
The heights of Fancy, and to read
The import of the coming years?
Or would the load be heavier yet?
A paler grief unheeded, wet
The Rock of Destiny with tears?