Strive not to say the whole! The Poet, in his Art,
Must intimate the whole, and say the smallest part.

— William Wetmore Story Poems of William Wetmore Story (1885)

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Source: Couplet III, i, Vol. II, p. 308.
Work: Poems of William Wetmore Story, 1885
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Poems of William Wetmore Story (1885)

Poems of William Wetmore Story (1885)

Poems of William Wetmore Story (1885)

Poems of William Wetmore Story (1885)

Poems of William Wetmore Story (1885)

Poems of William Wetmore Story (1885)

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