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TO AN UNKNOWN POET by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON

First Line: I READ FAR INTO THE SILENT NIGHT
Last Line: I HOLD THEM IN MEMORY.
Subject(s): POETRY & POETS;
I READ far into the silent night
The book of a bard unknown,
And, rapt in the songs he did indite,
Forgot to write my own;

But the time he has stolen from my Muse
His shall give back to me
When, stirred by the gain I can never lose,
I hold them in memory.



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