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Perhaps l could offer,
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as a poor but ready substitute,
a brief poetic recital,
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Though l do not pretend
to any great oratorical skills,
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l would be happy to present,
with your ladies' permission,
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verse from the unquiet mind
of Mr, Edgar Allan Poe,
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''Ladies, thy beauty is to me
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Like those Nicean barks of yore,
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That gently, o'er a perfumed sea,
The weary, wayworn wanderer bore
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To his own native shore,''