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“Let us (then) not only scatter benefits, but even strew -flowers for our fel¬ 
low-travelers in the rugged ways of this wretched world.”— Lord Chesterfield to 
his godson , Philip Stanhope . 
“Methinks, a sentence couched in the harmony of verse, darts more briskly 
upon the understanding, and strikes both my ear and apprehension with a smarter 
and more pleasing power.”— Michael Seigneur de Montaigne . 
A CHOICE SELECTION OF 
Autograph-Album Verses. 
A. 
Lines Appropriate for Dedication. 
1 . 
May no presuming pen 
Write aught -but faultless truth 
Upon a page of this fair book, 
Sacred to Innocence and Youth. 
2 . 
No carping critic’s eye need scan 
For venial faults this little book; 
’Tis meant for .Friendship’s eye alone, 
Which seeks not pebbles in each brook. 
3. 
I trust that ev’ry one that calls me friend 
Will to this little book some trifle lend, 
Whether some fancy flowers wildly sweet, 
Or some wise proverb, or some couplet neat, 
Or sentence from some writer, grave or funny: 
From ev’ry hive the wise can take some honey, 
Whether the bees have roam’d in wealth’s rich bowers. 
Or painful glean’d amid wild wayside flowers. 
