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Probably Walter Aimwell never attempted much poetical composition after / his apprenticeship. At least, but very few specimens have been preserved, / except such as are recorded in the note-book commenced in the year 1840.
Nothing so certainly requires great inborn genius as to obtain a name or / to succeed as a poet; except working in a tropical swamp in the sunshine, / no labor so much depends on the constitution with which a person comes / into the world, as that of uttering real poetry.