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The Home Book of Verse 121Part 5 · Chapter 4

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Literature · Romance

The Home Book of Verse 121

Part 5 · Chapter 4

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You and I will never read that volume. Guido Reni, like his own eye's apple Guarded long the treasure-book and loved it. Guido Reni dying, all Bologna Cried, and the world cried too, "Ours, the treasure!" Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished.

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Stevenson — The Home Book of Verse (Burton Egbert Stevenson) (author lived 1872–1962). Public Domain. Burton Egbert Stevenson, The Home Book of Verse; public domain in the US; text from Project Gutenberg #2620. Source

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The Home Book of Verse 122

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