LONDON

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NEW-STREET SQUARE

Α POEM

BY

MARGUERITE A. POWER

AUTHOR OF

LETTERS OF A BETROTHED' 'EVELYN FORESTER''NELLY CAREW' ETC.

Beloved, let us love so well,

Our work shall still be better for our love,
And still our love be sweeter for our work,
And both, commended, for the sake of each,
By all true workers and true lovers born"

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

LONDON

LONGMAN, GREEN, LONGMAN, AND ROBERTS

1860

280. S. 120.

ΤΟ

JOHN FORSTER, ESQ.

THE AUTHOR DEDICATES THIS LITTLE POEM

WITH THE VERY PROFOUND ESTEEM AND REGARD THAT LONG YEARS

OF FAITHFUL FRIENDSHIP HAVE INSPIRED

AND THE
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ADMIRATION THAT IS ENGENDERED. BY GREAT GIFTS WORTHILY EMPLOYED