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88 Out of those early struggles, and perhaps also out of later hitter experiences, came such poems as the following:

Even though his face be “red like Adam's,” and even though his art be noble like that of the masters of song, yet had Mr. Corrothers, even in the republic of letters, felt the handicap of his complexion, as this sonnet bears witness: