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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: chapter{Section 4THE VTW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY 955618A ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDBN FOUNDATIONS It 1938 L GLASGOW- PRINTED BY ROBERT ANDERSON. 85 QUEEN STREET. chapter{Section 5chapter{Section 6chapter{Section 7chapter{Section 8chapter{Section 9PROEM The germ lies buried in the earth, Neglected and despised; But, soon 'twill claim from Nature birth, And be both praised and prized. Yes many a paltry buried thing, Which e'en the hogs reject, Shall from the world a status wring, And gain fame and respect. The Goosediibbs Poet. chapter{Section 10THE BEGGAR'S BENISON. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY DOGGERELS. As sporting blades, will poaching go, 'Gainst partridges, and gronse; So, burglars, with an equal will, Proceed to rob a house. With lurid gleams, the waning moon, Grants kindly aid to either; Whether the game lies in a hall, Or nestles mid'st the heather The Goosedubbs Poet, Smoke, squalor, fumes, filth, vice, veniality, noise, nastiness ?amongst these I first became sensitive of life. At what period of years and months, of course I cannot tell. Nobody remembers his debut. No one marks his own advent upon society, of whatever description that society may be?high or low, rich or poor, aristocratic or plebeian. He simply grows into it. He expresses no surprise regarding it . He neither approves nor disapproves of it. He makes no remonstrance. He utters no protest. He tacitly accepts life unconditionally, uncovenantedly, unceremoniously, and there he is squalling, squeaking, smiling, sobbing, snuffling, either as a prince or a peasant, as the case may be 1 It is only impressions connected with our childish condition that we can call bads: to remembrance, and these hazily, dimly, and dreamily?without grasp, without p...