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by Unknown

On a man that died for men.

[¹] Copyright, Houghton, Mifflin & Co.

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HOW IT HAPPENED.[¹]

PRAY your pardon, Elsie,

And smile that frown away

That dims the light of your lovely face

As a thunder-cloud the day,

I really could not help it,—