The following

.composite poem is made, up of lines

from more than . thirty j different

authors, ingeniously woven into

connected couplets. As will be £een, it

includes lines from Shakespeare. Herr

rick, Milton, Dryden, Pope, Cbngreve,

Quarles, Young, Crabbe, Gray, Addi.son,

Cowper, Byron, Longfellow, apd a score

of other poets more or Iceb famous.. The

compiler, Mrs. H. A. Deming, of San

Francisco, has .affixed to' it the title

'Life.'-? -'; LIFE. :. ; '? . r / , Why

all this toil for- triumphs of an. hour?

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