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Identify the author of the following quotation:

"I love it, I love it; and who shall dare
To chide me for loving that old arm-chair?
I've treasured it long as a sainted prize.
I've bedewed it with tears, and embalmed it with sighs;
'Tis bound by a thousand bands to my heart
Not a tie will break, not a link will start.
Would you learn the spell? a mother sat there,
And a sacred thing is that old arm-chair."