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Healfast, Healfast, Ye Hero Wounds

by Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott

'"Healfast, healfast, ye hero wounds;
O knight, be quickly strong!
Beloved strife
For fame and life,
Oh, tarry not too long!"'


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