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276 are permitted to copy (in advance of publication) from the 2d No. of the American Review, the following remarkable poem by. In our opinion, it is the most effective single example of "fugitive poetry" ever published in this country; and unsurpassed in English poetry for subtle conception, masterly ingenuity of versification, and consistent, sustaining of imaginative life and "pokerishness." It is one of these "danties bred in a book" which we feed on. It will stick to the memory of everybody who reads it.