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O TAN-FACED PRAIRIE-BOY.

O TAN-FACED prairie-boy!
Before you came to camp, came many a welcome gift;
Praises and presents came, and nourishing food — till at      last among the recruits,
You came, taciturn, with nothing to give — we but      look'd on each other,
When lo! more than all the gifts of the world, you      gave me.

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