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[629-1] See Cowper, page 422.

[631-1] The poet alluded to is Goethe. I know this from Lord Tennyson himself, although he could not identify the passage; and when I submitted to him a small book of mine on his marvellous poem, he wrote, "It is Goethe's creed," on this very passage.--Rev. Dr. GETTY (vicar of Ecclesfield, Yorkshire).

[631-2] See Longfellow, page 616.

[632-1] See Shakespeare, page 144.

[632-2] I sing but as the linnet sings.--GOETHE: _Wilhelm Meister,

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