_If any worth be found within these pages,_ _If any skill, however poor, have traced_ _Man’s thoughts and purposes down the long ages_ _Where thought is dim and purpose half-effaced--_ _To you the opportunity be reckon’d,_ _To you the worth. You flung the portals wide_ _Which guard enchanted palaces, and beckon’d_ _To new adventures life had else denied--_…
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