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 DEDICATION

TO THE CITY OF BOMBAY

The Cities are full of pride,

Challenging each to each—

This from her mountain-side,

That from her burthened beach.

They count their ships full tale—

Their corn and oil and wine,

Derrick and loom and bale,

And rampart's gun-flecked line;

City by City they hail:

'' ' Hast aught to match with mine? ' ''

And the men that breed from them

They traffic up and down,

But cling to their cities' hem

As a child to their mother's gown.

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