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Excerpt from The Captive Chief: A Tale of Flodden Field; And Other Poems
The last-named motive is perhaps the most potent with rhymers like myself - and why not.l The most illiterate may have a yearning after that immortality that is only granted to the gods 3 for have we not eyes? Have we not ears? And have we not a heart that can feel and love, although it cannot express its emotions in language measured by the rules of art? Are such to hold their tongues, even from good words?
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