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FRAGMENT by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

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First Line: THOU STRAINEST THROUGH THE MOUNTAIN FERN
Last Line: TERN!
Subject(s): POETRY & POETS; WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM (1770-1850);

THOU strainest through the mountain fern,
A most exiguously thin
Burn.
For all thy foam, for all thy din,
Thee shall the pallid lake inurn,
With well-a-day for Mr. Swin-
Burne!
Take then this quarto in thy fin
And, O thou stoker huge and stern,
The whole affair, outside and in,
Burn!
But save the true poetic kin,
The works of Mr. Robert Burn'
And William Wordsworth upon Tin-
Tern!



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