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Excerpt from English Songs, and Other Small Poems
Much of what I have said applies to verse in general but it applies more especially to songs and small pieces of verse - those magw camera - which, at the time that they plead their want of pretension,' take due care, but too often, to justify their professed defects. When a writer commences a poem of serious length, he throws all his strength into it: he selects the happiest hour; he condenses, and amends, and rejects and, in short, does his best to produce some thing good. But in a song, or 'a trie in verse,' he feels no responsibility. He professes nothing, and, unfortunately, does little more.
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