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[Muse?] What theme, what laurel might the Reclaim from ages fled? What realm-restoring hero chuse To summon from the dead?

Yonder his shadow flits away: --Thou shalt not thus depart: Stay, thou transcendant spirit, stay, And tell me who thou art!

'Tis Alfred:--in the rolls of Fame And on a midnight page, Blazes his broad refulgent name: The watch-light of his age.

James Montgomery.

DA 153 .P33

With the affectionate love of the [author?] to [his?] nephew and niece [Capt. L M J. Marchant?] Sept. 1861

William G. [Mathers?], 21st Oct. 1891

[J/S?][hiba?] [Haicy?]

Arthur Y. Casanova