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AU REVOIR

(MARCH 23, 1909.)

What libellers of destiny
Are these who are afraid
That something yet without a name
Will seize him in the shade?

Though fever-demons may compound
Their most malefic brew,
No fever can defeat the man
Who still has work to do;

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