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What can I do in poetry, Now the good spirit's gone from me? Why, nothing now but lonely sit And over-read what I have writ.
Departure of the Good Daemon
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The poem
What can I do in poetry, Now the good spirit's gone from me? Why, nothing now but lonely sit And over-read what I have writ.
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