Russell, George William Erskine, 1853-1919 / 2008-06-28 00:00:00

EBOOK COLLECTIONS AND RECOLLECTIONS ***


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COLLECTIONS AND RECOLLECTIONS
George William Erskine Russell


THE MOST GENIAL OF COMPANIONS
JAMES PAYN
AT WHOSE SUGGESTION THESE PAPERS WERE WRITTEN AND TO WHOM THEY WERE
INSCRIBED
DIED MARCH 25, 1898
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Is he gone to a land of no laughter--
This man that made mirth for us all?
Proves Death but a silence hereafter,
Where the echoes of earth cannot fall?
Once closed, have the lips no more duty?
No more pleasure the exquisite ears?
Has the heart done o'erflowing with beauty,
As the eyes have with tears?
Nay, if aught be sure, what can be surer
Than that earth's good decays not with earth?
And of all the heart's springs none are purer
Than the springs of the fountains of mirth?
He that sounds them has pierced the heart's hollows,
The places where tears are and sleep;
For the foam-flakes that dance in life's shallows
Are wrung from life's deep.
J. RHOADES


PREFACE.
It has been suggested by Mr. Reginald Smith, to whose friendliness and
skill the fortunes of this book have been so greatly indebted, that a
rather fuller preface might be suitably prefixed to this Edition.
When the book first appeared, it was stated on the title-page to be
written "by One who has kept a Diary.
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