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A Collection of Poems. By Ernest Radford

Radford, Ernest (fl.1880-1920)

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PART I FROM THE VOLUME OF 1882

WHITE LIES

READER TO NOVELIST

THE ANSWER

CAMBRIDGE ROWING, 1874-8

CAMBRIDGE LODGINGS, 1877

MORAL FRAGMENTS

VALENTINE

INTROSPECTION

ART AND RELIGION IN CAMBRIDGE, 1874-78

II.

PART II LIGHT VERSE

III.

PART III TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY

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QUESTION

To one who long a worldly gain
In worldly paths has sought,
May aught of better worth remain,
Save peradventure caught
On cobwebs in the brain,
Some fragment of untainted thought?