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First Line: Mon cher monsieur le secretaire
Last Line: Of song, monsieur le secretaire!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
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 ghost is there
Of song, Monsieur le Secretaire!





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