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John Donne first wrote the words, Ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee. It is the last part of a longer passage in Mediation XVII of his Devotions Upon Emergent... Star Gazing
And again you find me wooing the muse, in, I fear, hesitating numbers. The Crusade of the Excelsior Bret Harte. Chalmers wrote respectable verses on a number of subjects, but his muse was especially of a humorous tendency. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II.