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EPILOGUE.

Irene.
Not this way will you set your name
A star among the stars.

Poet.
What way?

Irene.
You praise when you should blame
The barbarism of wars.
A juster epoch has begun.

Poet.
Yet tho' this cheek be gray,
And that bright hair the modern sun,