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Testing ground edit

TO THE WAR REALISTS.

The rumbling guns grow silent in the past,⁠
The clouds of war float down behind the hills,
The unnatural radiance that overcast
The battle moments no more awes and thrills.
Say what we will, for him who gives his life
To war, conscious of an ideal, there flames
A glory in the sky; the sorriest strife
Is hallowed by devotion and great aims.
Though glamour there be none, his soul is blunt
Who feels not where the battle-work is grim
A cloud of witnesses, a tidal wave
Of earth's best passion brim along the front,
Weighing upon him and exalting him,
Leaving the world at ebb to make him brave.

INTERLUDE.

Comrades, we bring this chapter to a close,
This long parenthesis of cosmic strife,
This interlude, touched with the grandiose,
Set in the uneventful tale of life.

For then this human swathe, this bandaging
That muffles us from the sublime was nigh
Threadbare with taking part in, witnessing
Too proximately God's grand strategy.

There we marched out on haunted battle-ground,
There smelled the strife of gods, were brushed against
By higher beings, and were wrapped around
With passions not of earth, all dimly sensed.

There saw we dæmons fighting in the sky
And battles in aerial mirage,
The feverish Véry lights proclaimed them by,
Their tramplings woke our panting, fierce barrage.

Their tide of battle, hither, thither driven,
Filled earth and sky with cataclysmic throes,
Our strife was but the mimicry of heaven's
And we the shadows of celestial foes.

TO THE AMERICAN LEGION.

We have vowed a vow and we may not turn aside,⁠
We are under oath to our comrades who have died
And they prompt us still and they will not be denied.

We are not our own, for our lives are under bond
To the martyr leaders who have passed beyond,
For they still command and we cannot but respond.

We are not our own, for we lost our liberty
On the day they died who had longed to make men free,
Whose compelling dream must be law for you and me.

There are those who made no agreement with the dead,
Who are free to laugh and to feast, but some instead
Will be stern with thinking on those who fought and bled.

There is room for song and for dance (but not for these),
And the frightened world must be blindfolded with ease,
But we fall heir to the great austerities.

For the Foe remains in a thousand forms elate,
And there is no armistice with Greed and Hate,
And no truce with Slavery though the day grow late.

Ay, the Foe remains who will grant us this joy more,
The same cross in peace that our comrades found in war,
And unite us so to the heroes gone before.

Essays original(?) to collections edit

Essays in Miniature (1892) edit

Charm of the Familiar, The	Essays in Miniature		1892	171-180	https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Essays_in_Miniature/The_Charm_of_the_Familiar
Children in Fiction	Essays in Miniature		1892	144-156	https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Essays_in_Miniature/Children_in_Fiction
Comedy of the Custom House	Essays in Miniature		1892	104-120	https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Essays_in_Miniature/Comedy_of_the_Custom_House
Humors of Gastronomy (same as "Humors of the Cookery-Book")	Essays in Miniature		1892	129-143	https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Essays_in_Miniature/Humors_of_Gastronomy
Mr. Wilde's Intentions	Essays in Miniature		1892	121-128	https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Essays_in_Miniature/Mr._Wilde%27s_Intentions
Old World Pets	Essays in Miniature		1892	182-194	https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Essays_in_Miniature/Old_World_Pets
Our Friends, The Books	Essays in Miniature		1892	11-26	https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Essays_in_Miniature/Our_Friends,_The_Books

Essays in Idleness (1893) edit

Letters pp. 192-224

In the Dozy Hours (1894) edit

Children's Age, The	In the Dozy Hours		1894	190-200	https://books.google.com/books?id=-Cs1AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA190
Curious Contention, A	In the Dozy Hours		1894	217-225	https://books.google.com/books?id=-Cs1AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA217
Forgotten Poet, A	In the Dozy Hours		1894	201-210	https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/In_the_dozy_hours,_and_other_papers/A_Forgotten_Poet
Lectures (same as "A Gentle Warning to Lecturers")	In the Dozy Hours		1894	123-136	https://books.google.com/books?id=-Cs1AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA123
Reviewers and Reviewed	In the Dozy Hours		1894	137-152	https://books.google.com/books?id=-Cs1AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA137
Sympathy	In the Dozy Hours		1894	165-175	https://books.google.com/books?id=-Cs1AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA165

Varia (1898) edit

Eternal Feminine, The	Varia		1898	1-29	https://books.google.com/books?id=USdEAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA1
From the Reader's Standpoint (same as "The Contentiousness of Modern Novel Writers")	Varia		1898	217-232	https://books.google.com/books?id=USdEAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA217
Royal Road of Fiction	Varia		1898	185-216	https://books.google.com/books?id=USdEAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA185

Compromises (1904) edit

French Love-Songs	Compromises		1904	153-169	https://books.google.com/books?id=DVUXAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA153
Luxury of Conversation, The	Compromises		1904	1-19	https://books.google.com/books?id=DVUXAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1
Our Belief in Books	Compromises		1904	66-87	https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Compromises/Our_Belief_in_Books
Pilgrim's Staff, The	Compromises		1904	105-124	https://books.google.com/books?id=DVUXAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA105
Point of View, The (same as "The Point of View in Fiction")	Compromises		1904	34-48	https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Compromises/The_Point_of_View
Quaker Diary, A (same as "A Colonial Diary")	Compromises		1904	125-152	https://books.google.com/books?id=DVUXAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA125

A Happy Half-Century (1908) edit

Child, The	Happy Half-Century, A		1908	138-154	https://books.google.com/books?id=Sd4qAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA138
Correspondent, The (same as "When Pens were Eloquent")	Happy Half-Century, A		1908	51-72	https://books.google.com/books?id=Sd4qAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA51
Educator, The	Happy Half-Century, A		1908	155-176	https://books.google.com/books?id=Sd4qAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA155
Novelist, The (same as "Our Great-Grandmother's Novel")	Happy Half-Century, A		1908	73-93	https://books.google.com/books?id=Sd4qAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA73
Our Accomplished Great-Grandmother	Happy Half-Century, A		1908	217-233	https://books.google.com/books?id=Sd4qAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA217
Pietist, The (same as "The Birth of the Controversial Novel")	Happy Half-Century, A		1908	177-195	https://books.google.com/books?id=Sd4qAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA177

Americans and Others (1912) edit

Benefactor, The pp. 237-251
Chill of Enthusiasm, The pp. 155-172
Condescension of Borrowers, The pp. 252-271
Goodness and Gayety pp. 58-84
Grocer's Cat, The pp. 273-298
Mission of Humour, The pp. 29-57
Temptation of Eve, The pp. 173-207

Essays original(?) to collections not in PD edit

Under Dispute (1924) edit

Allies
The American Laughs
Are Americans a Timid People?
The Battlefield of Education
The Divineness of Discontent
The Idolatrous Dog

Times and Tendencies (1931) edit

The American Takes a Holiday
Peace and the Pacifist
The Pleasure of Possession
Town and Suburb

Eight Decades: Essays and Episodes (1937) edit

Eight decades
Horace

A Guide to Ghost seeing & etc. edit

A LONG-FELT want has been supplied by the publication of a “Practical Handbook” (E. P. Dutton & Co.), to be used in communicating with spirits. Not that we have lacked literature on this inspiring theme. LIFE itself has called attention to the extent and variety of our information. But the anonymous author of “How to Speak with the Dead” has so simplified the process that it is within easy reach of all. A pad and a pencil for automatic writing, a tumbler and a key, in case the ghostly visitant prefers to call in the dark. With this inexpensive equipment any man or woman may hold an “expectancy sitting” in the privacy of home—the hours between midnight and two A. M. being best adapted to this form of social intercourse.

Larger gatherings are not, however, discountenanced. On the contrary, an “expectancy circle” which comes together regularly and punctually, which provides a table for rapping, and seeks the cordial “co-operation” of the dead, may develop into a “progressive circle” and hold “committee meetings,” which spirits will cheerfully attend. There are some weak mortals who cherish a hope that when they are done with life they will also be done with committees; but this is a lethargic frame of mind. Virile and vigorous spirits will bustle throughout eternity. “Wherever Macaulay may be,” muses a British satirist, “I am sure he is talking hard, or writing earnestly, for the instruction of his companions.”

Every department of spiritism is carefully handled in this painstaking little manual, and much useful advice is given. We are warned against asking “test” questions, which are, for the most part, a waste of time, besides being annoying to a well-bred spirit. Only when great historic figures appear at a séance may we suspect—not a lying medium, but a jest on the part of the merry dead. “There is probably some amusement to be extracted from personating Julius Caesar, Luther, Napoleon, Disraeli or Gladstone, and inducing both mediums and sitters to accept with reverence the pompous utterances of ridiculous banalities.”

Heaven knows we do not begrudge the spirits their little jokes. The unutterable dreariness and futility of their existence (which may perhaps be our existence) lends a sting to death, and victory to the grave. The paralyzing thought that we may one day be lifting table legs, rattling keys or writing misspelled, unpunctuated letters humiliates our souls.

And to what end? The crux of the whole agitating business is expressed in the brief sentence which concludes the “Handbook”: “Let us speak to the dead, and let us add their knowledge and counsel to the common store.” So far neither knowledge nor counsel has been of much value to the living world. Saul was apparently the only man whom the dead ever enlightened. He at least got a plain answer to a plain question. There has been a lamentable decline in mediums, spirits and controls since the Witch of Endor died. Agnes Repplier. Life (1919)

Braces, etc. edit

Notes edit

[From Scriptorium Help] Also, FYI, in CSS, when you give 4 values for "Top, Right, Bottom, Left", you can also do "Top&Bottom, Left&Right" if top = bottom and left = right. You can also do "Top, Left&Right, Bottom" where top != bottom, but left still equals right. So "0 0.25em 0 0.25em" is equivalent to "0 0.25em". Inductiveload—talk/contribs 15:21, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

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The Honble. Lord Byron.

To John Clarke.

To Bread & Milk for the Bear deliv^d.
to Haladay⁠…⁠…⁠…

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Mem.: This receipt is for the above sum,
in part of five hundred guineas agreed to
be paid by Mr. Murray for the Copyright
of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage."

⁠Of all his train there was a henchman page,
⁠peasant⁠served
⁠⁠A ~~dark eyed~~ boy, who ~~loved~~ his master well;
⁠And often would his pranksome prate engage
⁠Harold's
⁠⁠Childe ~~Burun's~~ ear, when his proud heart did swell
⁠With sable thoughts that he disdained to tell.
⁠Alwin
⁠⁠Then would he smile on him, as ~~Rupert~~ smiled,
⁠When aught that from his young lips archly fell
⁠Harold's
⁠⁠The gloomy film from ~~Burun's~~ eye beguiled;

And pleased the Childe appeared nor ere the boy reviled.
And pleased for a glimpse appeared the woeful Childe.

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⁠Him and one yeoman only did he take
⁠⁠To travel Eastward to a far countree;
⁠And though the boy was grieved to leave the lake
⁠⁠On whose firm banks he grew from Infancy,
⁠Eftsoons his little heart beat merrily
⁠⁠With hope of foreign nations to behold,
⁠And many things right marvellous to see,
⁠vaunting
⁠⁠Of which our ~~lying~~ voyagers oft have told,

~~From Mandevilles' and scribes of similar mold.~~
or, In tomes pricked out with prints to monied ... sold

In many a tome as true as Mandeville's of old.

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Attempt 1 edit

@AuFCL: I tried. Thought I'd ask you to correct my work (attempts 1 & 2) so I can paste the correct formatting to the corresponding poem pages. If you are willing, Thanks, Londonjackbooks (talk) 16:16, 4 October 2015 (UTC)

Such a concentration of total PITA cases collected in one place. You are truly getting into some intricate stuff.

Strictly I have applied George Orwell III's improvements to my basic experiment so don't deserve full credit for this.

So here is my best effort (I went mad and did the references as well which I was not sure you wanted me to touch.)

Some general notes if I may be so bold:

When there is both an opening and closing brace on a single line, try to build as much of the table as possible from the "top" downward. Whatever you do the two {{brace2}} statements should appear within the same table-row (or <tr> in the direct notation) otherwise it is impossible to (vertically) line them up.
I have removed quite a few "rowspan=2" directives on the basis the associated cell is of the form {{center|line 1 line 2}}. Please note the number following rowspan does not affect {{brace2}} and counts the number of table-cells to merge; not the number of anticipated lines to be contained within the affected cells.
To a pedant like myself the use of {{right}} in poetry is a bit of an embarrassment, as the template internally introduces a new <div> which cannot be contained under HTML rules within a . Worse yet, mediawiki promptly surrounds the selected text back in /s again, thus reintroducing the 7px margins all those s were trying to suppress. After playing around with a more complicated solution I've decided to "bite the bullet" and replace all {{right}}s with . (There is even an existing template for this formation: {{p|ar|m0}} which I have not used here: one surprise at a time?)

As there really is so much going on here I think it only safe for me to sit back and let the questions (if there are any—you might well be in wiki-shock [if there is such a thing]) roll in. AuFCL (talk) 21:42, 4 October 2015 (UTC)

Intricate for me, anyway. Thanks for the above... I will look the formatting over, along with your explanations, in stages (how I prevent wiki-shock). I might not have any questions for you... As long as I can manipulate the coding(?) for future use (why I at least like a very general understanding of what goes where and why), or merely copy/paste what is on this page, I should be good to go. Haven't yet looked over the references, but I will, thanks. Met with many cases when I worked on Childe Harold's Pilgrimage—probably my most ambitious project. Appreciated, Londonjackbooks (talk) 00:09, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

Ad Nepotem

O Nepos, twice my neigh(b)our (since at home
We're door by door, by Flora's temple dome;
And in the country, still conjoined by fate,
Behold our villas standing gate by gate),
Thou hast a daughter, dearer far than life—
Thy image and the image of thy wife.
Thy image and thy wife's, and be it so!

But why for her,	$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \end{matrix}}\right.}$	neglect the flowing	$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$	can
		O Nepos, leave the

And lose the prime of thy Falernian?
Hoard casks of money, if to hoard be thine;
But let thy daughter drink a younger wine!
Let her go rich and wise, in silk and fur;

Lay down a	$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \end{matrix}}\right.}$	bin that shall	$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$	grow old with her;
		vintage to

But thou, meantime, the while the batch is sound,
With pleased companions pass the bowl around;
Nor let the childless only taste delights,
For Fathers also may enjoy their nights.

Attempt 2 edit

Ad Olum

Call me not rebel, though	$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \end{matrix}}\right.}$	here at every word
		in what I sing

If I no longer hail thee	$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \end{matrix}}\right.}$	King and Lord
		Lord and King

I have redeemed myself with all I had,
And now possess my fortunes poor but glad.
With all I had I have redeemed myself,
And escaped at once from slavery and pelf.
The unruly wishes must a ruler take,
Our high desires do our low fortunes make:
Those only who desire palatial things
Do bear the fetters and the frowns of Kings;
Set free thy slave; thou settest free thyself.

References edit

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|{{ts|padding:0}}|''Futurity's behest''.
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<p style="margin:0;">Had the sword laid thee, with the mighty, low<br />Pride had forbade me of thy fall to plain.—[''MS. D''.]</p>
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| {{center|''meteors''<br />''lightnings''}}
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|''Whate'er beside''<br />''Howe'er may be''
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| ''Futurity's behest''.
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|''Or seeing thee no more to sink in sullen rest''.—[''M.S. D''.]
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|''Eternal evil''
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|Love, which to none beloved to love remits,
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|And thou, my friend! since thus my selfish woe
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{|
|Bursts from my heart,
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| to weaken in<br />however light my strain,<br />for ever light the ——.—[''D''.]
|}
{|
|Had the sword laid thee, with the mighty, low<br />Pride had forbade me of thy fall to plain.—[''MS. D''.]
|}
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↑ user annotation (Wikisource contributor note)

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As flashing far the new Volcano shone

And swept the skies with

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meteors
lightnings

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not their own.

or, As flashed the volumed blaze, and

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sadly
ghastly

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shone.

The skies with lightnings awful as their own.—

[Letter to Lord Holland, Sept. 25, 1812.]

or, As glared each rising flash, and ghastly shone—
The skies with lightnings awful as their own.—

[Letter to Lord Holland, Sept. 27, 1812.]

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(a) The kiss that left no sting behind
⁠So guiltless Passion thus forbore;
Those eyes bespoke so pure a mind,

That Love forgot to

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plead
ask

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for more.

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Whate'er beside
Howe'er may be

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Futurity's behest.

Or seeing thee no more to sink in sullen rest.—[M.S. D.]

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What marvel that this mistress demon works

Eternal evil

\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \end{matrix}}\right.}

wheresoe'er she lurks.—[MS. M.]
when she latent works.—[Copy.]

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—— from whose word

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Israel took God, pronounce the law in stone.
Israel left Egypt, cleave the sea in stone.

—[MS. Alternative readings.]

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Love, which to none beloved to love remits,

Seized me

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with mutual wish to please
with wish of pleasing him
with the desire to please

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so strong,

That, as thou see'st, not yet that passion quits, etc.

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And thou, my friend! since thus my selfish woe

Bursts from my heart,

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to weaken in
however light my strain,
for ever light the ——.—[D.]

Had the sword laid thee, with the mighty, low
Pride had forbade me of thy fall to plain.—[MS. D.]

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As flashing far the new Volcano shone

And swept the skies with $\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \end{matrix}}\right.}$ meteors
lightnings $\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$ not their own.

or, As flashed the volumed blaze, and $\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \end{matrix}}\right.}$ sadly
ghastly $\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$ shone.

The skies with lightnings awful as their own.—

[Letter to Lord Holland, Sept. 25, 1812.]

or, As glared each rising flash, and ghastly shone—
The skies with lightnings awful as their own.—
[Letter to Lord Holland, Sept. 27, 1812.]

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(a) The kiss that left no sting behind
⁠So guiltless Passion thus forbore;
Those eyes bespoke so pure a mind,

That Love forgot to $\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \end{matrix}}\right.}$ plead
ask $\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$ for more.

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Whate'er beside
Howe'er may be $\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$ Futurity's behest.

Or seeing thee no more to sink in sullen rest.—[M.S. D.]

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What marvel that this mistress demon works

Eternal evil $\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \end{matrix}}\right.}$ wheresoe'er she lurks.—[MS. M.]
when she latent works.—[Copy.]

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—— from whose word

$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \end{matrix}}\right.}$ Israel took God, pronounce the law in stone.
Israel left Egypt, cleave the sea in stone.

—[MS. Alternative readings.]

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Love, which to none beloved to love remits,

Seized me $\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right.}$ with mutual wish to please
with wish of pleasing him
with the desire to please $\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$ so strong,

That, as thou see'st, not yet that passion quits, etc.

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And thou, my friend! since thus my selfish woe

Bursts from my heart, $\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right.}$ to weaken in
however light my strain,
for ever light the ——.—[D.]

Had the sword laid thee, with the mighty, low
Pride had forbade me of thy fall to plain.—[MS. D.]

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