Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 133
ON HIMSELF, STROVE with none, for none was worth my strife;Nature I lovd, and next to Nature, Art;I warmd both hands before the fire of life;It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
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