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1832–1899

The Object aimed at.

Horatio Alger

But what “lady patron” as queen holds the sway; Or sweeping, whose hoops in the street are most sweeping; The burthen is not of this truth-telling lay, That should in its reading the world set to weeping,

While telling the suff'rings from head to the feet, Of poor human beings with nothing to eat.

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