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The poet of the "Bothie" becomes the poet of "Dipsychus," "Easter Day," and the "Amours de Voyage"; and the young republican who writes in triumph all humorous joy and animation to my father, from the Paris of 1848, which has just seen the overthrow of Louis Philippe, says, a year later February 24, 1849: To-day, my dear brother republican, is the glorious anniversary of '48, whereof what shall I now say?
In the same year he pub. his poem, The Bothie of Tober-na-Vuolich, written in hexameters. After travelling on the Continent for a year, he was in 1849 appointed Warden of Univ. Hall, London. In 1849 appeared Amours de Voyage, a rhymed novelette, and the more serious work, Dipsychus. In 1854 he was appointed an examiner in the Education Office, and married.
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