"A POOR POET."
'•. -v.-'-'- ; - Ono afternoon Browning went to call on . V Lady/Kinlo'ch 'and-missed his >way. : : A ;, lady was standing on her doorstop, and ho asked : her to: direct him to'the house.- She could v..'":: tell, him',vbut offered to look .it. up for him in tho directory; , and took him- into the house, produced a directory, and together they found out what- he wanted .to know, and; thon: caino out ■to tho doorstop :Vsgaih,_: so. ;that' ;she could, point iout .to him tho' direction he had to He thanked her, went down': the. steps, hesitated,': and ■'v' ( thon turned and camo .back: to'.her, sdying: -.."Perhaps you may.like to know to whom you have . been .so kind ? 1 am a poor 1 poet, and my namo is Robert Browning;" , •
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 507, 14 May 1909, Page 3
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128"A POOR POET." Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 507, 14 May 1909, Page 3
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