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EBOOK MARK HURDLESTONE ***


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MARK HURDLESTONE:
OR,
THE TWO BROTHERS.
BY MRS. MOODIE,
(_Sister of Agnes Strickland._)
AUTHOR OF "ROUGHING IT IN THE BUSH," "ENTHUSIASM," ETC
The fire burns low, these winter nights are cold;
I'd fain to bed, and take my usual rest,
But duty cries, "There's work for thee to do;
Stir up the embers, fetch another log,
To cheer the empty hearth. This is the hour
When fancy calls to life her busy train,
And thou must note the vision ere it flies."
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THIRD EDITION.
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MARK HURDLESTONE;
OR,
THE TWO BROTHERS.


CHAPTER I.
Say, who art thou--thou lean and haggard wretch!
Thou living satire on the name of man!
Thou that hast made a god of sordid gold,
And to thine idol offered up thy soul?
Oh, how I pity thee thy wasted years:
Age without comfort--youth that had no prime.
To thy dull gaze the earth was never green;
The face of nature wore no cheering smile,
For ever groping, groping in the dark;
Making the soulless object of thy search
The grave of all enjoyment.
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