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    The Arm Chair
    The Arm Chair
    The Arm Chair
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    The Arm Chair

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 25, 2013
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      The Arm Chair - Archive Classics

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Arm Chair, by unknown

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      Title: The Arm Chair

      Author: unknown

      Release Date: July 4, 2010 [EBook #33073]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ARM CHAIR ***

      Produced by Jason Isbell, Larry B. Harrison and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

      THE ARM CHAIR.

      "YOUR FATHERS, WHERE ARE THEY? AND THE

      PROPHETS, DO THEY LIVE FOREVER?"

      SECOND EDITION.

      PHILADELPHIA—1843.

      MEMORANDUM.

      The history of these rhymes is briefly this.—An Arm Chair, made many years ago by John Letchworth, for Leonard and Jane Snowdon, was presented to the Author, with some information of the worthies who were wont to visit the estimable owners; accompanied with an intimation that it would be a suitable theme for some verses. The result follows.

      THE ARM CHAIR.

      Cowper, the poet of the Christian muse,

      Sung of the Sofa; could I but infuse

      Some of his talent in my laggard quill,

      Some of his genius on my verse distil,

      Then would I sing,—my theme too from the fair,—

      Of thy coevals, rhyme-creating chair!

      He who with artist's skill scooped out thy seat,

      Trim made thy elbows, uprights, and thy feet,

      Now fourscore years and four has measured o'er,

      And waits his summons to the heavenly shore.

      Honest as sunshine, he who runs may read,

      That Letchworth is an Israelite indeed;

      No guile within him ever finds a place,

      Love of the Father spreads to all the race.

      His gospel ministry is void of show,

      For few and savory are the words that flow:

      Condensed and pithy are his periods found,

      Rich in their matter, nothing for mere sound.

      So preaches he. Ah, what a sad mistake,

      When empty sounds upon the people break,

      When a stentorian voice in efforts vain,

      Roars to the

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