Great is the art of beginning, but greater the art is of ending;
Many a poem is marred by a superfluous verse.


Elegiac Verse, st. 14 (1879).

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Great is the art of beginning, but greater the art is of ending; Many a poem is marred by a superfluous verse.

Great is the art of beginning, but greater the art is of ending; Many a poem is marred by a superfluous verse.

Great is the art of beginning, but greater the art is of ending; Many a poem is marred by a superfluous verse.

Great is the art of beginning, but greater the art is of ending; Many a poem is marred by a superfluous verse.