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We cannot all be great poets; but the humblest, if they be sincere, may give a genuine pleasure.

— Agnes Mary Frances Duclaux

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You hail from Dream-land, Dragon-fly?
A stranger hither? So am I,
And (sooth to say) I wonder why
We either of us came!

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