Oh! not for the great departed,Who formed our country’s laws,And not for the bravest-hearted,Who died in freedom’s cause,And not for some living heroTo whom all bend the knee,My muse would raise her song of praise—But for the man to be.
For out of the strife which womanIs passing through to-day,A man that is more than humanShall […]

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Oh! I know a certain woman who is reckoned with the good,But she fills me with more terror than a raging lion could.The little chills run up and down my spine whene’er we meet,Though she seems a gentle creature and she’s very trim and neat.
And she has a thousand virtues and not one acknowledged sin,But […]

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What a terrible night! Does the Night, I wonder—The Night, with her black veil down to her feetLike an ordained nun, know what lies underThat awful, motionless, snow-white sheet?The winds seem crazed, and, wildly howling,Over the sad earth blindly go.Do they and the dark clouds over them scowling,Do they dream or know?
Why, here in the […]

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