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It was not until he discovered one morning that everybody knew a couplet or two of "How we Beat the Favourite" that he consented to forego his anonymity and appear in the unsuspected character of a versemaker. The success of his republished "collected" poems gave him courage, and the unreserved praise which greeted "Bush Ballads" should have urged him to forget or to conquer those evil promptings which, unhappily, brought about his untimely death.' - Summary from the Preface.Note: The dramas (fragment of the Road to Avernus and Ashtaroth) have been left out of this volume.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>8759</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>ashtaroth,forego,gordon,poems,poetry,produced,promptings,scribbled,shyly,versemaker</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/971e6347c559168cf5a94a171ba1724d.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item></channel></rss>
