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MONSIEUR LE SECRETAIRE by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY

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First Line: MON CHER MONSIEUR LE SECRETAIRE
Last Line: OF SONG, MONSIEUR LE SECRETAIRE!
Subject(s): SINGING & SINGERS;
MON cher Monsieur le Secretaire,
Your song flits with me everywhere;
It lights on Fancy's prow and sings
Me on divinest voyagings:
And when my ruler love would fain
Be laid upon it -- high again
It mounts, and hugs itself from me
With rapturous wings -- still dwindlingly --
On! -- on! till but a @3ghost@1 is there
Of song, Monsieur le Secretaire!



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