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DAVID GRAY, AND OTHER ESSAYS,

CHIEFLY ON POETRY.

Sing, Poet, small or mighty-hug to thyself
The luxury of seeing-sing, and die!
'Tis the old story of the figleaf time :
A groping after beauty, a divine,
Aspiring, climbing, impulse, after God;-
Something far better than successful too—
Eternal!

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