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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: FRAGMENTS OF AN UNFINISHED POEM I Am a man of forty, sirs, a native of East Had- dam, And have some reason to surmise that I descend from Adam; But what's my pedigree to you ? That I will soon unravel; I 've sucked my Haddam-Eden dry, therefore desire to travel, And, as a natural consequence, presume I need n't say, I wish to write some letters home and have those letters p? I spare the word suggestive of those grim Next Morns that mount Clump, clump, the stairways of the brain with ? Sir, my small account, And, after every good we gain ? Love, Fame, Wealth, Wisdom ? still, As punctual as a cuckoo clock, hold up their little bill, The garqons in our Cafe of Life, by dreaming us forgot ? Sitting, like Homer's heroes, full and musing God knows what, ? Till they say, bowing, S'il vous plait, voila, Messieurs, la note /] I would not hint at this so soon, but in our callous day, The tollman Debt, who drops his bar across the world's highway, Great Caesar in mid-march would stop, if Caesar could not pay; Pilgriming's dearer than it was: men cannot travel Scot-free from Dan to Beersheba upon a simple vow; Nay, as long back as Bess's time, when Walsing- ham went over Ambassador to Cousin France, at Canterbury and Dover He was so fleeced by innkeepers that, ere he quitted land, He wrote to the Prime Minister to take the knaves in hand. If I with staff and scallop-shell should try my way to win, Would Bonifaces quarrel as to who should take me in? Or would my pilgrim's progress end where Bunyan started his on, And my grand tour be round and round the backyard of a prison ? I give you here a saying deep and therefore, haply true; 'T is out of Merlin's prophecies, but quite as good as new: fiTfjc quest...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217530804 |
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| ISBN-10 | 021753080X |
| Weight | 0.70 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.48 In |
| List Price | $15.37 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 210 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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