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LINES WRITTEN ON A BLANK LEAF IN A COPY OF THE AUTHOR'S by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

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First Line: TO PUBLIC NOTICE, WITH RELUCTANCE STRONG
Last Line: WHICH GOOD MEN TAKE WITH THEM FROM EARTH TO HEAVEN.
TO public notice, with reluctance strong,
Did I deliver this unfinished Song;
Yet for one happy issue; -- and I look
With self-congratulation on the Book
Which pious, learned, MURFITT saw and read; --
Upon my thoughts his saintly Spirit fed;
He conned the new-born Lay with grateful heart --
Foreboding not how soon he must depart;
Unweeting that to him the joy was given
Which good men take with them from earth to heaven.




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