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Arthur Edward John Legge
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Title: Town & Country Poems.Publisher: British Library,
Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national
library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest
research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known
languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound
recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its
collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial
additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating
back as far as 300 BC.The POETRY & DRAMA collection includes
books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The books
reflect the complex and changing role of literature in society,
ranging from Bardic poetry to Victorian verse. Containing many
classic works from important dramatists and poets, this collection
has something for every lover of the stage and verse. ++++The below
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British Library Legge, Arthur Edward John; null 8 . 011651.f.63.
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
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notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this
work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of
our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's
literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of
thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of intere
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
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for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: A
SOLILOQUY IN EATON SQUARE. The summei sun is shining on the Square,
And seems to bring a gleam of country gladness To give the
town-bred trees a brighter air, And force a smile upon the city's
sadness. It glances down upon a grimy seat, On which is stretched
the raggedest of creatures,- Some nameless, homeless haunter of the
street, With matted hair, and most forbidding features. He turns
his eyes towards me, like a cat That views its prey with greedy
expectation ; Then, touching what must once have been a hat,
Assails me with a whining supplication. Of course, I pay no
heed,?we're always taught That beggars do this sort of thing for
pleasure j Their piteous tales are never worth a thought, But just
composed to wile away their leisure. Besides, we know those only
starve who shirk The toil by Nature's kindly laws directed, And so
the rich, ?who die of overwork,? To sympathise can scarcely be
expected. Not that I'm rich ;?but, still, I'm one of those Who
sometimes pass within the sacred portals Of Mammon's shrine, whose
glory always throws- Its glamour even on such humble mortals.
Combined with some slight difference of birth It stamps this beggar
here as my inferior ; Though, if we came to reckon up our worth, It
might be hard to prove myself superior. True, I've a cleaner collar
round my throat, Much better boots, and hands a trifle paler, A
silken necktie, and a decent coat (For which I owe my too-confiding
tailor). My mind, moreover, has been made a tomb For some dead
languages and other knowledge, Though slight, yet not possessed by
those for whom Millbank or Portland is the only college. But when
you get beyond the outer shell, The bodily and mental clothes that
screen us, To tastes and morals,...
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