“Too great this largess from thy hand I know
Yet ask that some few drops of it may light
And listened to thy voice, and in it found
The very Spring and Soul of Poetry”

— George Gilfillan

From Proem 3 Night: A Poem by George Filfillan, Jackson, Walford & Hodder 1867
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Scottish writer 1813–1878

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