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44 POEMS.

XXX.

FIRE.

��A SHES denote that fire was ;

    • Respect the grayest pile

For the departed creature's sake That hovered there awhile.

��Fire exists the first in light, And then consolidates,

Only the chemist can disclose Into what carbonates.

�� �

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