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1862–1922

A WANING MUSE

John Kendrick Bangs

“WHY art thou sad, Poeticus?” said I. So blue was he I feared he would not speak. “Alas! I’ ve lost my grip,” was his reply — “I’ ve writ but forty poems, sir, this week.”

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