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TO EDMUND GOSSE by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON

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First Line: IN DARKENING DAYS, WHEN OLD DESIRES
Last Line: HEALTH, AND CONTINUED POWER TO PLEASE.
Subject(s): GOSSE, SIR EDMUND (1849-1928);
IN darkening days, when old desires
Die slowly down, like fading fires,
What cheers us most is still the cry
Of those who look for larger sky,
And find, with every cloud withdrawn,
Fresh promise of an ampler dawn.
Your voice of yore was joined with these,
I wish you therefore Hope and Ease,
Health, and continued power to please.



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