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To a Cantatrice.

HERE, take this gift!

I was reserving it for some hero, orator, or general,

One who should serve the good old cause, the prog-
ress and freedom of the race, the cause of
my Soul;

But I see that what I was reserving belongs to you
just as much as to any.

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