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“MOTHER OF HEROES”
SARAH BLAKE SHAW
Mother of heroes, she—of them who gaveTheir 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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