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Title: Fugitive Poetry

Author: Nathaniel Parker Willis

Release Date: April 26, 2010 [EBook #32146]

Language: English

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FUGITIVE POETRY.

FUGITIVE POETRY:

BY N.P. WILLIS.

"If, however, I can, by lucky chance, in these days of evil,
rub out one wrinkle from the brow of care, or beguile the
heavy heart of one moment of sorrow; if I can, now and then,
penetrate the gathering film of misanthropy, prompt a
benevolent view of human nature, and make my reader more in
good humor with his fellow beings and himself, surely,
surely, I shall not then have written entirely in vain."
WASHINGTON IRVING.

BOSTON:
PUBLISHED BY PEIRCE AND WILLIAMS.
1829.

DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, _to wit_:

DISTRICT CLERK'S OFFICE.

Be it remembered, that on the eleventh day of September, A.D. 1829, in
the fifty-fourth year of the Independence of the United States of
America, PEIRCE AND WILLIAMS, of the said district, have deposited in
this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as
proprietors in the words following, _to wit_:

"Fugitive Poetry: By N.P. WILLIS.

"'If, however, I can, by lucky chance, in these days of evil, rub out
one wrinkle from the brow of care, or beguile the heart of one moment of
sorrow; if I can, now and then, penetrate the gathering film of
misanthropy, prompt a benevolent view of human nature, and make my
reader more in good humor with his fellow beings, and himself, surely,
surely, I shall not then have written entirely in vain.' _Washington
Irving._"

In conformity to the Act of the