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TO A WESTERN BOY.

O BOY of the West!

To you many things to absorb, I teach, to help you
become eleve of mine:

Yet if blood like mine circle not in your veins;

If you be not silently selected by lovers, and do not
silently select lovers,

Of what use is it that you seek to become eleve of mine?

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