"One must become Fanatic – be a wedge – a thunder-bolt To smite a passage through the close-grained world."
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Smith (Glasgow: Wilson, 1888) p. 33
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John Davidson (poet)
John Davidson (April 11, 1857 – March 23, 1909) was a Scottish journalist, playwright, fiction-writer and translator, but is best remembered as a poet.
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