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TO LAURENCE HUTTON by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON

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First Line: THERE IS NO 'MIGHTY PURPOSE' IN THIS BOOK
Last Line: AND LITTLE ELSE OF MISSION THAN TO PLEASE.
Subject(s): HUTTON, LAURENCE (B. 1843);
THERE is no 'mighty purpose' in this book.
Of that I warn you at the opening page,
Lest haply 'twixt the leaves you careless look
And finding nothing to reform the age,
Fall with the rhyme and rhymer in a rage.
Let others prate of problems and of powers;
I bring but fancies born of idle hours,
That striving only after Art and Ease,
Have scarcely more of moral than the flowers
And little else of mission than to please.



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