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Rock never to cause any stumbling blocks rock
Of ages clift for me its where Ive found salvation free
From the first breath of life no malice or strife never
Enterd the Heart of James Gay this if spared will
Be caried out till he is called away to that happy
Home prepaird for all mankind where nothing can decay
I was 77 on the 24 of Last March Gladstone is four
Months older then Gay Curious for me to have this
To say My Brother Long Fellow died on my birth
Day on March 24ᵗʰ 1882 It appears the old poets are
Passing away only two Left Lord Tinnysan and
James Gay I am From the Parish of Brattan
Clovelly Devonshire And Alfred Tinnysan is
From the Isle of White I will asshure you my
Brother Americans as a Poet with me as no site, I have
Over two thousand five hundred pages all ready
Composèd and ready for the press I want to reap
Some benafits of My Beautiful Poemes before
I am called to rest Poor Robby Burns Lord By ran
William Cooper Shake Speer Tom Moor Milton
And my Brother John Gay A Devonshire Poet to
And my self to I say thousands and tens of thousands
Of Dolars will be Made by Book Publishers all over
This world after our Bodeys have returned to clay
Ive been a great traveller in my day So now I want
Published the Life and Travels of three years
In England Iriland and the Channal Islands and
United States and Canada To some of the best Books
Ever composed in Canada or in any other parts of
This world I have composed forty versis for Her
Majestyes Jubile I should say some of the fineist
You ever did see. * * *
I have been composing more or less
Since 61 I can never give it up till I am called away
My Heavenly Fathers will I must obay I sit and
Compose some nights till nine and ten some times
Till eleven I genarally take my happy repose about
Nine sleep in peace with all Mankind I am a Man
Above thousands this is so every ones friend and no
Ones foe Gentlemen this is all at preasent I have
To say Please send me a few lines by return
Of Post I shall feal as happy as the flowers in May
Gentlemen yours Ever truly in Christ what
More can a Poet say Address James Gay
East Market Square Royal City of Guelph
Ontario
N.B. my little Poemes through your
Monthly Magazine can never be forgot
The will sell in Unitid States and in Canada
Just like Cakes when hot