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                  <forename>Sarah Morgan Bryan</forename>
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                  <surname>Fralick</surname>
                  <forename>Kaitlyn</forename>
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            <publisher>University of Victoria Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry Project</publisher>
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            <note>Poet attribution: Charlotte Fiske Bates, editor, <title level="m">The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song</title>, Thomas Y. Crowell &amp; Co., 1882, pp. 419-20. The <title level="j">Chambers’s Journal</title> ledger entry for this poem lists John Piatt, Sarah Piatt’s husband, with a payment of £1, presumably because he received the fee and not because he authored the poem (NLS Dep 341/310). (AC)</note>
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                     <incipit>Good-night, pretty sleepers of mine—</incipit>
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