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As We Read Burns

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Title:     As We Read Burns
Author: James Whitcomb Riley [More Titles by Riley]

Who is speaking? Who has spoken?
Whose voice ceasing thus has broken
The sweet pathos of our dreams?
Sweetest bard of sweetest themes,
Pouring in each poet-heart
Some rare essence of your art
Till it seems your singing lip
Kisses every pencil tip!
Far across the unknown lands--
Reach of heavenly isle and sea--
How we long to touch the hands
You outhold so lovingly!






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James Whitcomb Riley's poem: As We Read Burns

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