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A NEW
ARISTOCRACY.
BY
“BIRCH ARNOLD,”
Author of “Until the Daybreak.”
BARTLETT PUBLISHING COMPANY.
New York: 30 and 32 West Thirteenth St.
Detroit, Mich.: 44 West Larned St.
1891.
COPYRIGHT BY AUTHOR.
Electrotyped and printed by
THE PUBLISHERS’ PRINTING COMPANY
30 & 32 WEST 13TH STREET
NEW YORK
“Talk about questions of the day. There is but onequestion and that is the Gospel. It can and will correcteverything that needs correction.... My only hope forthe world is in bringing the human mind into contact withDivine Revelation.
“Wm. E. Gladstone.”
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INTRODUCTION.
“Write ye for art,” the critics cry,
“And give your best endeavor,
That down the aisles of length’ning time
Your fame may speed forever!”
“Write ye for truth,” my heart replies,
“And prove that generous giving,
May help some blinded eyes to find
The noblest way of living.”
The simple story, plainly told,
May bear its own conviction,
And words alive with buoyant hope
May supersede their diction.
Give me the horny-handed clasp
Of some good honest neighbor,
Who finds within the words I speak
A strength for earnest labor.
Give me the lifted, grateful smile
Of some poor fainting woman,
Who knows that I regard her soul
As something dear and human.
6Give me the fervent, heartfelt prayer
Of just the toiling masses;
To be remembered with their love
Your boasted art surpasses.
And this be mine, whate’er the fault
Of manner, not of matter,
Along the rocky ways of life
Some living truths to scatter.
Birch Arnol
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