SEA SPRAY ^ SMOKE DRIFT 

 BORROWED PLUMES 



A PREFACE AND A PIRACY 



PROLOGUE 



Of borrow'd plumes I take the sin, 



My extracts will apply- 

 To some few silly songs which in 



These pages scatter'd lie. 



The words are Edgar Allan Poe's, 



As any man may see, 

 But what a Poe-X. wrote in prose, 



Shall make blank verse for me. 



EPILOGUE 



And now that my theft stands detected, 

 The first of my extracts may call 



To some of the rhymes here collected, 

 Your notice, the second to all. 



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