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The Poetry of Real Life

A New Edition, Much Enlarged and Improved. By Henry Ellison
 

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------ “Dread Power!
Whose gracious favor is the primal source
Of all illumination, may my life
Express the image of a better time—
More wise desires, and simpler manners;—nurse
My heart in genuine freedom.”
—Wordsworth. Excursion—Introductory Verses.