Dedication

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TO
THE MEMORY OF
HELEN HUNT JACKSON
The Most Brilliant, Impetuous
and Thoroughly Individual Woman of
American Literature.

‘‘

What songs found voice upon those lips,

What magic dwelt within the pen,

Whose music into silence slips,

Whose spell lives not again!

O, sunset land! O, land of vine,

And rose, and bay! In silence here

Let fall one little leaf of thine,

With love, upon her bier.

’’

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