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Reading edition
FOR
SCHOOLS AND PRIVATE READING
BY
ABRAHAM FIRTH
SECRETARY OF THE AMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION
—which "plead the cause Of those dumb mouths that have no speech."
Longfellow
And I am recompensed, and deem the toils Of poetry not lost, if verse of mine May stand between an animal and woe, And teach one tyrant pity for his drudge
Cowper