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Updated: May 2, 2025
We walked up the steps, and my friend let the brass knocker drop just once, for only Americans give a rat-a-tat-tat, and the door was opened by a white-whiskered butler, who took our cards and ushered us into the library. My heart beat a trifle fast as I took inventory of the room; for I never before had called on a man who was believed to have refused the poet-laureateship.
It raised against Cibber a phalanx of implacable foes foes who howled at everything of which he was afterwards the author; but it gained for him his advancement to the poet-laureateship, and an estimation which caused some people to place him, for usefulness to the cause of true religion, on an equality with the author of "The Whole Duty of Man." This Walker was a genius in a small fashion.
We have travelled three thousand miles to find a tram-conductor whose eyes glisten as he tells us that Kipling is better, and who discusses with a great deal of sense and acuteness the question of the English poet-laureateship! Could anything be more marvellous or more significant? Said I not well when I declared the Atlantic Ocean of less account than the Straits of Dover?
We also presume it will help the sale and promote his chance of the poet-laureateship. After the dedication comes the "Proeme" of eight couplets, occupying a separate page, faced and backed with virgin paper. The sovereign voice spake, once more, in mine ear: "Write, now, a song unstained by any tear!" "What shall I write?" I said: the voice replied: "Write what we tell thee of the crucified!"
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