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INSCRIPTION PROPOSED FOR A SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS' MONUMENT IN BOSTON by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

Poet Analysis

First Line: TO THOSE WHO DIED FOR HER ON LAND AND SEA
Last Line: IN LIVES LIKE THEIRS, AT DUTY'S SUMMONS SPENT.
Subject(s): BOSTON; MONUMENTS;
TO those who died for her on land and sea,
That she might have a country great and free,
Boston builds this: build ye her monument
In lives like theirs, at duty's summons spent.



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