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I Home: Friendship  VI Fancy: Sentiment
  II LoveVII Descriptive: Narrative
III Sorrow and Consolation  VIII National Spirit
  IV The Higher LifeIX Tragedy: Humor
V Nature  X Poetical Quotations

THE WORLD'S
BEST POETRY

IN TEN VOLUMES, ILLUSTRATED

Editor-in-Chief

BLISS CARMAN

Associate Editors

John Vance Cheney   Charles G. D. Roberts
Charles F. Richardson  Francis H. Stoddard