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Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry. 1904.

Poems of Sentiment: IV. Thought: Poetry: Books

Verses, why Burnt

Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)

HOW many verses have I thrown

Into the fire because the one

Peculiar word, the wanted most,

Was irrecoverably lost!