Book Traces: Civil War Era Readers and Their Books in Virginia Libraries

Maria L. McCleary. from her friend Miss Donnison.

April 1886.

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"The wise Man, I affirm, can find no rest In that which perishes; nor will he lend His heart to aught which doth on time depend. 'Tis Sense, unbridled Will, and not true Lo[ve?] Which kills the soul: Love betters what is bes[t?] Even here below, but more in heaven above." Wordsworth