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1913 · PDF PAGE 3

The Writing On the Ground

…st speak. This crawling creature (would we could hope him to be mere victim of Religious mania!) i vilifying his dead friend, seeking to right himself with Heaven.— Oh, fears of Hell and hopes of Paradise!” It has its grimly humorous aspect. * “The First Stone,”’ by T. W. H. Crosland. 3

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The Writing On the Ground

…; but, worse than all, the poem called “ Two Loves,” beginning with the celebrated quotation from Shakespeare—‘ My better angel is a man right fair, my worse a woman tempting me to ill.” In a vision the “poet” sees two people; the first is joyous, and sings; the second walks aside :— “He is full sad and sweet, and his large eyes Were strange with wondrous brightness, and staring wide With gazing ; and he sighed with many sighs That moved me, and his cheeks were wan and white Like pallid lilies, and his lips were red Like poppies, and his hands …

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