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Page 26 - It is a very odd thing, but quite true, I assure you, that before your letter came I was sitting at breakfast alone, and reading some of Moore's Songs, and thinking to myself how it was fame enough to have written but one song — air, or words — which should in after days solace the sailor at the wheel, or the soldier in foreign places! — be taken up into the life of England ! No doubt ' The Last Rose of Summer
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