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INSCRIPTION PROPOSED FOR A SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS' MONUMENT IN BOSTON, by                 Poet Analysis     Poet's Biography
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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