Stories in Verse

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STORIES IN VERSE.

BY

HENRY ABBEY.

The sense of the world is short-

To love and be beloved.

EMERSON.

NEW YORK:

A. D. F. RANDOLPH &CO., PUBLISHERS,

COR. BROADWAY AND NINTH STREET.

1869.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1869, by

HENRY L. ABBEY,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of

New York.

RIVERSIDE, CAMBRIDGE:

PRINTED BY H. O. HOUGHTON AND COMPANY.

TO

RICHARD GRANT WHITE,

WITH GRATITUDE FOR HIS FRIENDSHIP, AND WITH ADMIRATION FOR HIS ELEGANT

SCHOLARSHIP.

BLANCHE: AN EXHALATION FROM WITHERED VIOLETS.

"Violets! Violets! Violets!"

This was the cry I heard

As I passed through the street of a city;

And quickly my heart was stirred

To an incomprehensible pity,

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