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The Secret.

A minstrel lived in bygone years
Who had a voice so sad and sweet,
It melted hearts of stone to tears,
And haunted all whom he might meet.
His eyes too rained a pitying flood,
But every song of his strange art,
They say, was written first in blood
Drained from some woman's broken heart.
March 27th, 1886.