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The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Vol 2 (of 2)

Volume 1 — BIBLIOGRAPHICAL APPENDIX

Reading edition

No. I

POEMS FIRST PUBLISHED IN NEWSPAPERS OR PERIODICALS

The Cambridge Intelligencer.

Lines written at the King's Arms, Ross, formerly the House of the Man of Ross Sept. 27, 1794

Absence Oct. 11, 1794

Sonnet [Anna and Harland] Oct. 25, 1794

Sonnet [Genevieve] Nov. 1, 1794

To a Young Man of Fortune, &c. Dec. 17, 1796

Ode for the Last Day of the Year, 1796 Dec. 31, 1796

Parliamentary Oscillators Jan. 6, 1798

The Morning Chronicle.

To Fortune Nov. 7, 1793

Elegy [Elegy imitated from Akenside] Sept. 23, 1794

Epitaph on an Infant. 'Ere sin could blight', &c. Sept. 23, 1794

Sonnets on Eminent Characters.

i. To the Honourable Mr. Erskine Dec. 1, 1794

ii. Burke Dec. 9, 1794

iii. Priestley Dec. 11, 1794

iv. La Fayette Dec. 15, 1794

v. Kosciusko Dec. 16, 1794

vi. Pitt Dec. 23, 1794

vii. To the Rev. W. L. Bowles Dec. 26, 1794

viii. Mrs. Siddons Dec. 29, 1794

ix. To William Godwin Jan. 10, 1795

x. To Robert Southey Jan. 14, 1795

xi. To Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Esq. Jan. 29, 1795

To Lord Stanhope Jan. 31, 1795

Address to a Young Jack Ass and its tethered Mother, In Familiar Verse Dec. 30, 1794

The Watchman.

No. 1. To a Young Lady with a Poem on the French Revolution Mar. 1, 1796

No. 2. Casimir. Ad Lyram. Imitation. 'The solemn-breathing air', &c. Mar. 9, 1796

No. 3. Elegy. 'Near the lone Pile', &c. Mar. 17, 1796

The Hour when we shall meet again. 'Dim hour', &c. Mar. 17, 1796

No. 4. 'The early Year's fast-flying Vapours stray' Mar. 25, 1796

A Morning Effusion. 'Ye Gales', &c. Mar. 25, 1796

No. 5. To Mercy. 'Not always should the Tears', &c. Apr. 2, 1796

Recollection. 'As the tir'd savage', &c. Apr. 2, 1796

No. 6. Lines on Observing a Blossom on the First of February, 1796. 'Sweet Flower that peeping', &c. Apr. 11, 1796

No. 8. To a Primrose. 'Thy smiles I note', &c. Apr. 27, 1796

No. 9. Epitaph on an Infant. [Reprinted from the Morning Chronicle, Sept. 23, 1794.] 'Ere Sin could blight', &c. May 5, 1796

The Monthly Magazine.

On a Late Connubial Rupture, (ii, p. 647) Sept. 1796

Reflections on Entering into Active Life, (ii, p. 732.) 'Low was our pretty Cot', &c. Oct. 1796

Sonnets attempted in the Manner of Contemporary Writers, (iv, p. 374) Nov. 1797

The Annual Register.

Lines to a Beautiful Spring in a Village, (xxxviii, pp. 494-5) 1796

Tranquillity, An Ode. (xliii, pp. 525-6) 1801

Stanzas Addressed to a Lady on Her Recovery from a severe attack of Pain. (The Two Founts.) (lxix, pp. 537-8) 1827

The Morning Post.

To an Unfortunate Woman in the Back Seats of the Boxes at the Theatre. 'Maiden that with sullen brow' Dec. 7, 1797

Melancholy: A Fragment Dec. 12, 1797

Fire, Famine, and Slaughter: A War Eclogue Jan. 8, 1798

The Old Man of the Alps. Mar. 8, 1798

The Raven Mar. 10, 1798

Lines Imitated from Catullus. 'My Lesbia', &c. Apr. 11, 1798

Lewti, or the Circassian Love Chaunt Apr. 13, 1798

The Recantation: An Ode Apr. 16, 1798

Moriens Superstiti. 'The hour-bell sounds', &c. May 10, 1798

A Tale. [Recantation. Illustrated in the Story of the Mad Ox] July 30, 1798

The British Stripling's War-Song Aug. 24, 1799

The Devil's Thoughts Sept. 6, 1799

Lines written in the Album at Elbingerode Sept. 17, 1799

Lines Composed in a Concert Room Sept. 24, 1799

To a Young Lady. 'Why need I say', &c. Dec. 9, 1799

Introduction to the Tale of the Dark Ladié Dec. 21, 1799

Ode to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire Dec. 24, 1799

A Christmas Carol Dec. 25, 1799

Talleyrand to Lord Granville Jan. 10, 1800

The Mad Monk Oct. 13, 1800

Inscription for a Seat by the Road-side, &c. Oct. 21, 1800

Alcaeus to Sappho Nov. 24, 1800

The Two Round Spaces: A Skeltoniad Dec. 4, 1800

On Revisiting the Sea Shore Sept. 15, 1801

Tranquillity, An Ode Dec. 4, 1801

The Picture, or The Lover's Resolution Sept. 6, 1802

Chamouni. The Hour before Sunrise. A Hymn Sept. 11, 1802

The Keepsake Sept. 17, 1802

How seldom Friend, &c. [The Good Great Man] Sept. 23, 1802

Inscription on a Jutting Stone over a Spring Sept. 24, 1802

Dejection: An Ode Oct. 4, 1802

Ode to the Rain Oct. 7, 1802

France: An Ode Oct. 14, 1802

The Language of Birds. 'Do you ask, what the Birds say?' &c. Oct. 16, 1802

The Day-dream. From an Emigrant to his Absent Wife Oct. 19, 1802

The Courier.

The Exchange of Hearts Apr. 16, 1804

Lines on a King-and-Emperor-making Emperor and King (Adaptation) Sept. 12, 1806

Farewell to Love. [Morning Herald, Oct. 11, 1806] Sept. 27, 1806

To Two Sisters Dec. 10, 1807

Epitaph on an Infant. 'Its milky lips', &c. Mar. 20, 1811

The Hour Glass (Adaptation) Aug. 30, 1811

The Virgin's Cradle Hymn Aug. 30, 1811

Mutual Passion (Adaptation) Sept. 21, 1811

The Friend.

[Ode to Tranquillity] No. 1, June 1, 1809

The Three Graves, A Sexton's Tale No. 6, Sept. 21, 1809

Hymn. Before Sun-rise, in the Vale of Chamouny No. 11, Oct. 26, 1809

Tis True, Idoloclastes Satyrane No. 14, Nov. 23, 1809

The Gentleman's Magazine.

Farewell to Love. (lxxxv, p. 448) 1815

Overlooked Poem by Coleridge. The Volunteer Stripling. (xxix, p. 160, N. S.) 1848

Felix Farley's Bristol Journal.

Fancy in Nubibus, or The Poet in the Clouds Feb. 7, 1818

Written on a Blank Leaf of Faulkner's Shipwreck, presented by a friend to Miss K Feb. 21, 1818

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine.

Fancy in Nubibus. (Vol. vi, p. 196) Nov. 1819

The poet in his lone, &c. [Apologia, &c.] (Vol. xi, p. 12) Jan. 1822

The Old Man's Sigh: A Sonnet. (Vol. xxxi, p. 956) June, 1832

Co-operative Magazine and Monthly Herald.

On the Prospect of Establishing a Pantisocracy in America Apr. 6, 1826

Literary Magnet.

An Impromptu on Christmas Day, &c. N. S., Vol. iii, 1827, p. 71

The Evening Standard.

Sancti Dominici Pallium May 21, 1827

The Crypt, a Receptacle for Things Past.

Job's Luck 1827, pp. 30, 31

The Literary Souvenir.

The Exchange 1826, p. 408

Lines Suggested by the Last Words of Berengarius 1827, p. 17

[Epitaphium Testamentarium] 1827, p. 17

Youth and Age 1828, p. 1

What is Life? 1829, p. 346

The Bijou, 1828.

The Wanderings of Cain. A Fragment p. 17

Work without Hope 28

Youth and Age 144

A Day Dream. 'My eyes make pictures' 146

The Two Founts 202

The Amulet.

New Thoughts on Old Subjects. The Improvisatore 1828, pp. 37-47

Three Scraps 1833, pp. 31, 32

(i) Love's Burial Place.

(ii) The Butterfly.

(iii) A Thought suggested by a View of Saddleback in Cumberland.

New York Mirror.

Lines written in Miss Barbour's Common Place Book Dec. 19, 1829

The Keepsake.

The Garden of Boccaccio 1829, p. 282

Song, Ex Improviso, &c. 1830, p. 264

The Poet's Answer to a Lady's Question, &c. 'O'er wayward Childhood', &c. 1830, p. 279

The Athenæum.

Water Ballad Oct. 29, 1831

Friendship's Offering, 1834.

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My Baptismal Birthday 163

Fragments from the Wreck of Memory, &c.—

i. Hymn to the Earth 165

ii. English Hexameters, written during a temporary Blindness, in the Year 1799 167

iii. The Homeric Hexameter, &c. 168

iv. The Ovidian Elegiac Metre, &c. 168

v. A Versified Reflection. 'On stern Blencarthur's', &c. 168.

Love's Apparition and Evanishment 355

Lightheartednesses in Rhyme—

i. The Reproof and Reply 356

ii. In Answer to a Friend's Question. 'Her attachment may differ', &c. 359

iii. Lines to a Comic Author, on an abusive Review 359

iv. An Expectoration, &c. 'As I am (sic) Rhymer', &c. 360

Expectoration the Second. 'In Coln, a town of monks and bones' 360

The New Monthly Magazine.

The Faded Flower Aug. 1836

Dublin University Magazine.

A Stranger Minstrel 1845, xxvi, 112-13

No. II

EPIGRAMS AND JEUX D'ESPRIT FIRST PUBLISHED IN NEWSPAPERS AND PERIODICALS

1. An Apology for Spencers. Watchman, No. 4, Mar. 25, 1796.

2. On a Late Marriage between an Old Maid, &c. Ibid., No. 5, April 2, 1796.

3. On an Amorous Doctor. Ibid., ibid.

4. 'Of smart pretty Fellows', &c. Ibid., p. 159.

5. On Deputy ——. M. P., Jan. 2, 1798.

6. To a Well-known Musical Critic, &c. M. P., Jan. 4, 1798.

7. Hippona. M. P., Aug. 29, 1799.

8. On a Reader of His Own Verses. M. P., Sept. 7, 1799.

9. On a Report of a Minister's Death. 'Last Monday', &c. M. P., Sept. 18, 1799.

10. 'Jem writes his Verses', &c. M. P., Sept. 23, 1799.

11. On Sir Rubicund Naso. M. P., Dec. 7, 1799.

12. Job's Luck, 1799. M. P., Sept. 26, 1801.

13. On the Sickness of a Great Minister. M. P., Oct. 1, 1799.

14. To a Virtuous Oeconomist. M. P., Oct. 28, 1799.

15. 'Jack drinks fine wines', &c. M. P., Nov. 16, 1799.

16. To Mr. Pye. M. P., Jan. 24, 1800.

17. 'If the guilt of all lying', &c. An. Anth., 1800.

18. 'O would the Baptist', &c. An. Anth., 1800.

19. Occasioned by the Former. 'I hold of all', &c. An. Anth., 1800.

20. 'As Dick and I at Charing Cross', &c. An. Anth., 1800.

21. To a Proud Parent. An. Anth., 1800.

22. Rufa. An. Anth., 1800.

23. On a Volunteer Singer. An. Anth., 1800.

24. Occasioned by the Last. 'A joke (cries Jack)', &c. An. Anth., 1800.

25. Song to be Sung by the Lovers of all the Noble Liquors, &c. M. P., Sept. 18, 1801.

26. Epitaph on a Bad Man. M. P., Sept. 22, 1801.

27. Drinking versus Thinking. M. P., Sept. 25, 1801.

28. The Wills of the Wisp. M. P., Dec. 1, 1801.

29. To a Certain Modern Narcissus. M. P., Dec. 16, 1801.

30. To a Critic. M. P., Dec. 16, 1801.

31. Always Audible. M. P., Dec. 19, 1801.

32. Pondere non Numero. M. P., Dec. 26, 1801.

33. 'To Wed a fool'. M. P., Dec. 26, 1801.

34. What is an Epigram? M. P., Sept. 23, 1802.

35. 'Charles, grave or merry', &c. Sept. 23, 1802.

36. 'An Evil Spirit's on thee, friend '. M. P., Sept. 23, 1802.

37. 'Here lies the Devil', &c. M. P., Sept. 23, 1802.

38. To One who Published in Print. M. P., Sept. 23, 1802.

39. 'Scarce any scandal', &c. M. P., Sept. 23, 1802.

40. 'Old Harpy jeers', &c. M. P., Sept. 23, 1802.

41. To a Vain Young Lady. M. P., Sept. 23, 1802.

42. A Hint to Premiers and First Consuls. M. P., Sept. 27, 1802.

43. 'From me, Aurelia', &c. M. P., Oct. 2, 1802.

44. For a House-dog's Collar. M. P., Oct. 2, 1802.

45. 'In vain I praise thee', &c. M. P., Oct. 2, 1802.

46. Epitaph on a Mercenary Miser. M. P., Oct. 9, 1802.

47. A Dialogue between an Author and his Friend. M. P., Oct. 11, 1802.

48. Μωροσοφία or Wisdom in Folly. M. P., Oct. 11, 1802.

49. 'Each Bond-street buck', &c. M. P., Oct. 11, 1802.

50. From an old German Poet. M. P., Oct. 11, 1802.

51. On the Curious Circumstance, that in the German, &c. M. P., Oct. 11, 1802.

52. Spots in the Sun. M. P., Oct. 11, 1802.

53. 'When Surface talks', &c. M. P., Oct. 11, 1802.

54. To my Candle. The Farewell Epigram. M. P., Oct. 11, 1802.

55. The Taste of the Times. Athenæum, Jan. 9, 1904.

56. 'An Excellent Adage', &c. The Friend, No. 12, Nov. 9, 1809.

57. Epigram on the Secrecy of a Certain Lady. The Courier, Jan. 3, 1814.

58. To a Lady who requested me to write a Poem on Nothing. Gazette of Fashion, Feb. 2, 1822.

59. Authors and Publishers. News of Literature, Dec. 10, 1825.

60. Association of Ideas. Fraser's Magazine, Jan. 1835.

61. To a Child. 'Little Miss Fanny'. Athenæum, Jan. 28, 1888.

No. III

POEMS INCLUDED IN ANTHOLOGIES AND OTHER WORKS

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1. Poems, supposed to have been written. . . By Thomas Rowley,. . .1794.

Monody on the Death of Chatterton xxv

2. Poems by Francis Wrangham, M.A., 1795.

Translation of Hendecasyllabi ad Bruntonam, &c. 79

To Miss Brunton with the Preceding Translation.

3. Poems on the Death of Priscilla Farmer. By her grandson Charles Lloyd, 1796.

Sonnet. 'The Piteous sobs', &c.

4. Lyrical Ballads, 1798.

The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere 1

The Foster Mother's Tale 53

The Nightingale 63

5. Lyrical Ballads (in two volumes), 1800.

Vol. I. Love [with the four poems published in 1798] 138

6. Annual Anthology, 1800.

*Lewti, or The Circassian Love-Chant 23

*To a Young Lady, on her first Appearance after a Dangerous Illness. 32

*Recantation, Illustrated in the Story of the Mad Ox 59

*Lines Written in the Album at Elbingerode, in the Hartz Forest 74

*A Christmas Carol 79

To a Friend, who had declared his intention of writing no more Poetry 103

This Lime-Tree Bower my Prison. A Poem, addressed to Charles Lamb, of the India House, London 140

To W. L. Esq. while he sung a Song to Purcell's Music. 156

*The British Stripling's War-Song 173

Something childish, but very natural. Written in Germany 192

Home-Sick. Written in Germany 193

*Ode to Georgiana, Dutchess of Devonshire 212

*Fire, Famine, and Slaughter. A War Eclogue 231

*The Raven 240

*To an unfortunate Woman. 'Sufferer, that with sullen brow' 291

[Note. Poems marked with an asterisk were reprinted from the Morning Post.]

7. Memoirs of the late Mrs. Robinson, &c. Four volumes, 1801.

A Stranger Minstrel Vol. iv, p. 141

8. Melmoth's Beauties of British Poets, 1801.

To a Young Ass 21

To a Spring in a beautiful Village 119

The Sigh 167

The Kiss 201

9. The Wild Wreath. Edited by M. E. Robinson, 1804.

The Mad Monk 142

10. The Poetical Register and Repository of the Fine Arts.

Vol. II. For 1802 (1803).

*Chamouny. The Hour before Sunrise. A Hymn 308

*Inscription on a Jutting Stone over a Spring 338

*The Picture; or, The Lover's Resolution 354

Vol. III. For 1803 (1805).

From the German of Leasing. 'I ask'd my fair', &c. [Signed 'Harley Philadelphia'.] 274

Sonnets, Attempted in the Manner of 'Contemporary Writers' 346

Vol. IV. For 1804 (1805).

The Exchange.

Vol. VI. For 1806, 1807 (1811).

On a Late Connubial Rupture in High Life 365

Vol. VII. For 1808, 1809 (1812).

Fears in Solitude. By S. T. Coleridge, Esq. 227

France, An Ode. By S. T. Coleridge, Esq. 332

Frost at Midnight. By S. T. Coleridge Esq. 530

[Note. Sonnets Attempted, &c., in Vol. III, and On a Late, &c., in Vol. VI, were reprinted from the Monthly Magazine: the three poems in Vol. VII were reprinted from the quarto pamphlet of 1798, and were again set up as a small octavo pamphlet by Law & Gilbert, the printers of the Poetical Register. Vide Bibliography, No. X.]

11. Selection of Poems for Young Persons, by J. Cottle. Third edition, n. d.

Epitaph on an Infant 129

Sonnet to the River Otter 155

Domestic Peace 157

12. English Minstrelsy; being a Selection of Fugitive Poetry from the Best English Authors. Two volumes, 1810.

Vol. II.

Fragment. S. T. Coleridge ['Introduction to the Tale of the dark Ladie' as published in the Morning Post] 131

13. Poetical Class-Book. Edited by W. F. Mylius, 1810.

This Lime Tree Bower my Prison.

14. Nugæ Canoræ. Poems by Charles Lloyd, 1819.

Sonnet. 'The piteous sobs ', &c. 145

15. The British Minstrel. Glasgow, 1821.

The Three Graves

16. Castle Dangerous. By Sir W. Scott, 1832. Notes by J. G. Lockhart. Galignani, 1834.

The Knight's Tomb. 'Where is the grave', &c. 10

17. A History of . . . Christ's Hospital. By the Rev. W. Trollope, 1834.

Julia 192

18. Letters, Conversations, &c., of S. T. Coleridge. In two volumes, 1836.

Vol. I.

Farewell to Love 143

To Nature. 144

Sonnet. To Lord Stanhope 217

Vol II.

'What boots to tell how o'er his grave' 75

19. Early Recollections, &c. By Joseph Cottle, 1837.

Vol. I.

Monody on . . . Chatterton, ll. 137-54 32

To W. J. H. While playing on his flute 33

The Fox and Statesman, &c. 172

Sonnet. To Lord Stanhope 203

Written After a Walk Before Supper 209

To an unfortunate Young Woman, Whom I had known in the days of her Innocence. 'Maiden! that with sullen brow'. 213

Allegorical Lines on the same subject. 'Myrtle Leaf, that ill besped' 214

On an Unfortunate Woman at the Theatre 216

On an Unfortunate, &c. 217

Examples. 'O what a life', &c. 226

Another Specimen, describing Hexameters, &c. 226

Another Specimen. 'In the Hexameter', &c. 227

The English Duodecasyllable. 'Hear my beloved', &c. 227

Foster-Mother's Tale 235

To a Friend, [Charles Lloyd (sic)] who had declared his intention, &c., ll. 17-35 245

Lines Addressed to Joseph Cottle 283

'As oft mine eye', &c. [The Silver Thimble] 236

Sonnets, Attempted in the Manner of Contemporary Writers 290

To the Author of the Ancient Mariner 293

Vol. II.

Five 'Epigrams, translated . . . from the German' 65-6

My Love. 'I ask'd my love', &c. 67

Joan of Arc, Book the Second. 4o, 1796 (including the lines claimed by S. T. C.) 241-52

20. The Book of Gems. Edited by S. C. Hall, 1838.

The Garden of Boccaccio 51

Love 52

The Nightingale 53

Lines written in the Album at Elbingerode, &c. 58

Recollections of Love 59

21. Memoirs of William Wordsworth. In two volumes, 1851.

Vol. I.

English Hexameters. 'William, my teacher', &c. 139

22. An Old Man's Diary. By J. Payne Collier, 1871, 2.

My Godmother's Beard Part I, pp. 34, 35.

Epigram. 'A very old proverb commands', &c.

Epitaph on Sir James Mackintosh. [The Two Round Spaces on the Tombstone] Part I, pp. 61, 62.

A Character. 'A Bird who for his other sins' (15 lines) Part IV, p. 57.

23. Unpublished letters from Samuel Taylor Coleridge to the Rev. John Prior Estlin: Communicated to the Philobiblon Society.

To An Unfortunate Princess. [On a Late Connubial, &c.] 20

Lines Addressed to J. Horne Tooke. 'Britons! when last', &c. 22

24. Letters from the Lake Poets. . . To Daniel Stuart, 1889.

Alcaeus to Sappho 16

25. Memorials of Coleorton. Edited by W. Knight. Two vols., 1887.

Vol. I.

Mont Blanc, The Summit of the Vale of Chamouny, An Hour before Sunrise—A Hymn. [As sent to Sir George Beaumont.] 26

To William Wordsworth. Composed for the greater part on the same night after the finishing of his recitation of the Poem in thirteen Books, on the Growth of his own Mind. [As sent to Sir G. Beaumont, Jan. 1807.]

26. Golden Treasury of Songs and Lyrics. Edited by F. T. Palgrave 1896.

Love 199

Kubla Khan 308

Youth and Age 323

No. IV

Poems first printed or reprinted in Literary Remains, 1836.

Vol. I.

The Fall or Robespierre 1

Julia 33

'—I yet remain' (By W. L. Bowles) 34

To the Rev W. J. Hort 35

To Charles Lamb ('Thus far my scanty brain', &c.) 36

To the Nightingale 38

To Sara ('The stream', &c.) 39

To Joseph Cottle 40

Casimir ('The solemn-breathing air', &c.) 41

Darwiniana ('Dim Hour', &c.) 43

'The Early Year's fast-flying', &c. [Ver perpetuum]. 44

To a Primrose 47

On the Christening of a Friend's Child 48

Inscription by the Rev. W. L. Bowles, &c. 50

Translation 50

Introduction to the Tale of the Dark Ladie 50

Epilogue to the Rash Conjuror 52

Psyche 53

Complaint ('How seldom Friend', &c.) 53

An Ode to the Rain 54

Translation of a Passage in Ottfried's . . . Paraphrase of the Gospels 56

Israel's Lament, &c. 57

Sentimental 59

The Alternative 59

The Exchange 59

What is Life! 60

Inscription for a Time-Piece 60

Επιτάφιον αὐτογραπτόν 60

Poems and Poetical Fragments.

'My Lesbia', &c. 274

'Pity, mourn in plaintive tones' 274

Moriens superstiti 275

Morienti superstes 275

The Stripling's War Song. Imitated from Stolberg 276

Eighteen Fragments from Note book (1795-8) 277-81

'I mix in life, and labour to seem free.' [To ——] 280

Farewell to Love 280

'Within these circling hollies', &c. [An Angel Visitant] 280

Grant me a Patron 281

Poems first printed or reprinted in Essays on His Own Times, 1850.

Vol. III.

Recantation. Illustrated in the story of the Mad Ox 963

Parliamentary Oscillators 969

The Devil's Thoughts 972

The British Stripling's War Song 988

Tranquillity. An Ode 991

The Day Dream. From an Emigrant to his absent Wife 993

Mutual Passion 995

The Alienated Mistress ('If love be dead', &c.) 997

To a lady (''Tis not the lily', &c.) 997

A Thought suggested by the View of Saddleback, &c. 997

L'Envoy to 'Like a Lone Arab' ('In vain we', &c.) 998

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