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TO EDMUND GOSSE, WITH AT THE SIGN OF THE LYRE by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON

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First Line: BOOK AGAINST BOOK.' 'AGREED,' I SAID
Last Line: NOTHING TRANSMUTES LIKE SYMPATHY.
'BOOK against book.' 'Agreed,' I said:
But 'twas the truck of Diomed!

-- And yet, in Fairy-land, I'm told
Dead leaves -- as these -- will turn to gold.
Take them, Sir Alchemist, and see!
Nothing transmutes like sympathy.



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