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Show What's ill n NnnieP (llefore the battle of I exlnglon Wll- linn lmwes and Paul Itevere were Iwvtli dispatched to rouse the country, Dawes starting llrst ) 1 am a wandering bitter shadoj Never of mc was a hem mule. Poets have neier sung inj praise. Nobody ernwneil mv brow with bn)st And If vou nsk ire the fatal tsllse 1 nnseier end) 'Mi mine Is pniis ' lis all verv well for the children to hear Of the ml blight rl . of Paul Itevere. llut why should m mime le quite forgot. Who rode so l.vl.lli mil well Hod wot? Why shoul I I nsk The reason Is clear M nmie was Diwrs nnd not Itevere When the lights from the North church ItaclioJ out Paul Iteiere wis walling about, Hut 1 was aire id) on mi wu, The shadows nf night fell eold and gray As 1 rode with never a break or lnuse. Hut whnl was the use when my namo was Dawes? History rings with his silver) mine; ( losr.l to in, nre the portals of fame. Hid he been Dnw.s and I Itnveie, No one hnl he anl of him I feir. Vo one has heard of me because Ho was Itevere nnd I was Dnw.s -Helen r Moire In Century. |