Dedication.

There is no danger to a man that knows
What life and death is: there’s not any law
Exceeds his knowledge; neither is it lawful
That he should stoop to any other law.—CHAPMAN.

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Major English Romantic poet regarded as one of the finest lyric poets in the English language.

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