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Excerpt from The Poetical Works of Barry Cornwall, Vol. 1
Tm; outlines of the Sicilian Story' and of the Falcon' may be found in the Decameron.
I have attempted two poems in the octave rhyme. It is, with all its apparent ease, (and indeed principally on that account,) a difficult style; and it is not without some hesitation that i lay these poems before the public.
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