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Dec 3rd 1860
Dear Signor,
I send you a rhymed Letter! which is a sort of running Biography
to persuade you, that you who have so often told me of the high
respect you have for work, should honour the Practical Poet and
do him immortal honour - even as you have done immortal honour
to our contemplative poet -
I have always heard you also say that men in action were your
Heroes. A silent course of forty years of daily devotedness to
business, and to the performance of business, in the most perfect
spirit of patient plodding
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