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The Little Book of Modern Verse

by Jessie B. Rittenhouse

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On a Fly-Leaf of Burns’ Songs. [Frederic Lawrence Knowles]

These are the best of him,
Pathos and jest of him;
Earth holds the rest of him.

Passions were strong in him, —
Pardon the wrong in him;
Hark to the song in him! —

Each little lyrical
Grave or satirical
Musical miracle!

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