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1044 Rock never to cause any stumbling blocks rock Of ages clift for me its where Ive found salvation free From the first breath of life no malice or strife never Enterd the Heart of James Gay this if spared will Be caried out till he is called away to that happy Home prepaird for all mankind where nothing can decay I was 77 on the 24 of Last March Gladstone is four Months older then Gay Curious for me to have this To say My Brother Long Fellow died on my birth Day on March 24ᵗʰ 1882 It appears the old poets are Passing away only two Left Lord Tinnysan and James Gay I am From the Parish of Brattan Clovelly Devonshire And Alfred Tinnysan is From the Isle of White I will asshure you my Brother Americans as a Poet with me as no site, I have Over two thousand five hundred pages all ready Composèd and ready for the press I want to reap Some benafits of My Beautiful Poemes before I am called to rest Poor Robby Burns Lord By ran William Cooper Shake Speer Tom Moor Milton And my Brother John Gay A Devonshire Poet to And my self to I say thousands and tens of thousands Of Dolars will be Made by Book Publishers all over This world after our Bodeys have returned to clay Ive been a great traveller in my day So now I want Published the Life and Travels of three years In England Iriland and the Channal Islands and United States and Canada To some of the best Books Ever composed in Canada or in any other parts of This world I have composed forty versis for Her Majestyes Jubile I should say some of the fineist You ever did see. * * * I have been composing more or less Since 61 I can never give it up till I am called away My Heavenly Fathers will I must obay I sit and Compose some nights till nine and ten some times Till eleven I genarally take my happy repose about Nine sleep in peace with all Mankind I am a Man Above thousands this is so every ones friend and no Ones foe Gentlemen this is all at preasent I have To say Please send me a few lines by return Of Post I shall feal as happy as the flowers in May Gentlemen yours Ever truly in Christ what More can a Poet say Address James Gay East Market Square Royal City of Guelph
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N.B. my little Poemes through your Monthly Magazine can never be forgot The will sell in Unitid States and in Canada Just like Cakes when hot