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hundred and ten. In subsequent versions the number of verses was reduced to one hundred and one.

Edward Fitzgerald, unrewarded by the gratitude of a now ever-widening circle of admirers of this Epicurean philosophical poem, died in 1883, leaving this little classic a monument to his genius.