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O Tan-Faced Prairie-Boy

O TAN-FACED PRAIRIE-BOY.

O TAN-FACED prairie-boy! Before you came to camp, came many a welcome gift; Praises and presents came, and nourishing food—till at  
 last among the recruits, You came, taciturn, with nothing to give—we but  
 look'd on each other, When lo! more than all the gifts of the world, you  
 gave me.
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