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PROLOGUE TO 'VIGNETTES IN RHYME' by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON

Poet Analysis

First Line: GO, LITTLE BOOK, ON THIS THY FIRST EMPRIZE
Last Line: OF ART, OR GRACE, OR SONG, -- THAT IS NOT HERS.
Subject(s): BOOKS; READING;

'leviore plectro.'

Go, little book, on this thy first emprize:
If that thou 'scape the critic Ogre-land,
And come to where young Beauty, with bright eyes,
Listless at noon, shall take thee in her hand,
Tell her that nought in thy poor Master stirs
Of art, or grace, or song, -- that is not Hers.



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