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Title: Eleanor Fortesque Brickdale's Golden book of famous women
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Fortescue-Brickdale, Eleanor
Subjects: Women in literature
Publisher: London New York : Hodder and Stoughton
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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TO MARY UNWIN Mary ! I want a lyre with other strings, Such aid from Heaven as some have feigned they drew, An eloquence scarce given to mortals, new And undebased by praise of meaner things. That, ere through age or woe I shed my wings, I may record thy worth with honour due, In verse as musical as thou art true, And that immortalizes whom it sings. But thou hast little need. There is a book By seraphs writ with beams of heavenly light, On which the eyes of God not rarely look, A chronicle of actions just and bright: There all thy deeds, my faithful Mary, shine, And, since thou ownst that praise, I spare thee mine. WILLIAM COWPER. ON THE RECEIPT OF MY MOTHERS PICTURE OUT OF NORFOLK Oh that those lips had language! Life has passed With me but roughly since I heard thee last. Those lips are thine—thy own sweet smile I see, The same that oft in childhood solaced me; Voice only fails, else how distinct they say, Grieve not, my child, chase all thy fears away! The meek intelligence of those dear eyes(

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