When I Read the Book.
Part of the cluster INSCRIPTIONS.
WHEN I READ THE BOOK.
WHEN I read the book, the biography famous, And is this, then, (said I,) what the author calls aman's life? And so will some one, when I am dead and gone, write
my life? [ begin page 11 ]
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(As if any man really knew aught of my life;
Why, even I myself, I often think, know little or noth- ing of my real life; Only a few hints—a few diffused, faint clues and indi-
rections, I seek, for my own use, to trace out here.)
Part of the cluster INSCRIPTIONS.