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Rh How can he be otherwise than a poet who witnesses these impressive scenes?

Or he who thus sees Nature in her gala dress?

But this is cultivated poetry, the poetry of the city. There is another poetry which echoes over the solitary plains the popular, natural, and irregular poetry of the gaucho. Music, too, is found among our people. It is a national taste recognized by all our neighbors. When