<h2 id="c7">THE MASTER’S PROTEST.</h2>
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<p class="t0">My song consists of all the notes</p>
<p class="t0">That flow from feathered songsters’ throats;</p>
<p class="t0">My heart is thrilled with all their pain,</p>
<p class="t0">Their sorrow, love, and joy again.</p>
<p class="t0">They have but taken of my song</p>
<p class="t0">A measure, which they warble long.</p>
<p class="t0">So let my protest now be heard—</p>
<p class="t0">O call me not a Mocking-bird!</p>
<p class="lr">—Hildane Harrington.</p>
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