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Text: Edgar Allan Poe, "[Prefatory Material]," Poems, 1831, p. 9-12






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LETTER.

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Tell wit how much it wrangles
In fickle points of niceness —
Tell wisdom it entangles
Itself in overwiseness.
                                            Sir Walter Raleigh.









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