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Seated in my library at night, and looking on the silent faces of my books, I am occasionally visited by a strange sense of the supernatural.

Alexander Smith

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Alexander Smith
Age: 36 †
Born: 1830
Born: December 31
Died: 1867
Died: January 5
Poet
Cille Mheàrnaig
Strange
Books
Seated
Looking
Visited
Faces
Supernatural
Sense
Occasionally
Night
Library
Book
Lovers
Silent

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