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1842–1914

A BEQUEST TO MUSIC.

Ambrose Bierce

“Let music flourish!” So he said and died. Hark! ere he's gone the minstrelsy begins: The symphonies ascend, a swelling tide, Melodious thunders fill the welkin wide —

The grand old lawyers, chinning on their chins!

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