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Keeper of Printed Books in the British Museum. 
 
TO AMERICA; 
 
 After Heading some Ungenerous Criticistns. 
 
 What though thy Muse the singer's art essay 
 
 With Up now over-loud, now over-low? 
 
 'T is but the augury that makes her so 
 Of the high things she hath in charge to say. 
 How shall the giantess of gold and clay, 
 
 Girt with two oceans, crowned with Arctic snow, 
 
 Sandalled with shining seas of Mexico, 
 Be pared to trim proportion in a day? 
 Thou art too great! Thy million-billowed surge 
 
 Of life bewilders speech, as shoreless sea 
 Confounds the ranging eye from verge to verge 
 
 With mazy strife or smooth immensity. 
 Not soon or easily shall thence emerge 
 
 A Homer or a Shakespeare worthy thee. 
 
 Richard Garnett. 
 
 One hundred and fifty copies printed on the Marion Press, 
 Jamaica, Queensborough, New- York, June, 1898. 
 
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