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To a Certain Cantatrice

TO A CERTAIN CANTATRICE.

HERE, take this gift! I was reserving it for some hero, orator, or general, One who should serve the good old cause, the great  
 Idea, the progress and freedom of the race; But I see that what I was reserving belongs to you  
 just as much as to any.
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