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Stories in Verse

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Stories in Verse (1869)
by Henry Abbey
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STORIES IN VERSE.

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 GRATATITUDE FOR HIS FRIENDSHIP, AND WITH ADMIRATION
FOR HIS ELEGANT SCHOLARSHIP.

CONTENTS.


PAGE

Blanche
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1
Karagwe, an African
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28
Demetrius
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55
The Strong Spider
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82
Grace Bernard
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94
Veera
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112


This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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