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MOTHER OF HEROES (SARAH BLAKE SHAW) by RICHARD WATSON GILDER

First Line: MOTHER OF HEROES, SHE, - OF THEM WHO GAVE
Last Line: AND WHEN I THINK ON MUSIC -- LO, HER FACE!
Subject(s): MUSIC & MUSICIANS;
MOTHER of heroes, she, -- of them who gave
Their lives to lift the lowly, free the slave.
Her, through long years, two master passions bound:
Love of our free land; and of all sweet sound.
'T was praising her to praise this land of grace;
And when I think on music -- lo, her face!




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