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THE DEDICATION.
"Count me o'er earth's chosen heroes,—
they were souls that stood alone,
While the men they agonized for, hurled
the contumelious stone,
Stood serene, down the future saw
the golden beam incline
To the side of perfect justice, mastered
by their faith divine,
By one man's plain truth to manhood
and to God's supreme design"
- —James Russell Lowell.
