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LOVELINESS

ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS

"Be my benediction said,
With my hand upon thy head,
Gentle fellow-creature!"
E. B. Browning.

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY