Page:The Man with the Hoe, Markham, 1900.djvu/142

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These Songs Will Perish

And hurrying, snatches up some human reed,
Blows through it once her terror-bearing note,
And breaks and throws away. It is enough
If we can be a bugle at her lips,
To scatter her contagion on mankind.

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