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Ventures into Verse
Being Various Ballads, Ballades, Rondeaux, Triolets, Songs, Quatrains, Odes and Roundels All rescued from the Potters' Field of Old Files and here Given Decent Burial [Peace to Their Ashes]

BY
Henry Louis Mencken
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS & OTHER THINGS
By CHARLES S. GORDON & JOHN SIEGEL
MARSHALL, BEEK & GORDON :: NEW
YORK :: LONDON :: TORONTO :: SYDNEY
BALTIMORE First (and Last) Edition
M C M I I I
Copyright, 1903, by Henry L. Mencken
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