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THE TWO VOICES

POEMS OF THE MOUNTAINS
AND THE SEA

SELECTED BY

JOHN W. CHADWICK

AUTHOR OF "A BOOK OF POEMS," IN NAZARETH TOWN,"

ETC., ETC.

Two Voices are there; one is of the Sea,
One of the Mountains; each a mighty Voice.
-WORDSWORTH

TROY, N. Y.

H. B. NIMS & COMPANY

1886

HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

GIFT OF

MRS. PARKER POTTER
SEP 2 1939

COPYRIGHT, 1886, BY
H. B. NIMS & COMPANY

TROW'S

PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING COMPANY,

NEW YORK.

WHY THESE?

The most because I long have loved them well, So well that they are grown a part for me Of mountain splendor and the mobile sea; Which are most God's, in sooth, I cannot tell; And yet I have foregone as dear as these,

With pain, because I could not take them all In my small craft, lest some mischance befall. But why have kept some that so widely please— Best known of all? Because I loved them so That sink or swim I could not let them go.

But some are here-perchance a graver sin— Whose name and fame as yet are all to win ; And some because the friends who love me best Said, for our sakes, be thine among the rest.

J. W. C.

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