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Unknown Lines to the Portrait of Col. Thomas F. Burpee

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02744.339 Author/Creator: Unknown Place Written: s.l. Type: Poem Date: 1861-1877 Pagination: 2 p. ; 20.5 x 25.5 cm. Order a Copy

"Why speak'st thou not, my precious one?/There as I gaze, me thinks thou might/One word from thee, my darling one,/Would fill my heart with strange delight...

Burpee, Thomas F., fl. 1861-1865

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