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Excerpt from The Burning of Chicago: A PoemKind friend, I thank thee for thy sympathy; 'tis balm to soothe my spirit in distress; And could I but repay thee as I would, My Muse should be invoked to ease my heart Of the deep debt of gratitude it owes, And still must owe, for lack of power to pay; For still the memory of that hery sea, Whose waves engulfed our city in their