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DisplayImage("intro", "front1", "
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"2", "2", "[Frontispiece]", SmallCapsText("Sir H.M. Stanley.")) ?>
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StoryTitle("caps", "Proem") ?>
SubTitle("smallcaps", "To Sweetheart Joan") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Smile yet again, my sweetheart Joan,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "Ere night and Nursie’s doom", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Shall leave these orpan’d eyes alone", "") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "To chase the twilight gloom;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Good-night! Another dawn shall speed", "") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "That we in ardour blest", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "May follow brave Uleydi’s lead,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "And find the hidden West;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And as, with tender lip and chaste", "") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "Beyond this earth’s alloy,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For one brief time you bid me taste", "") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "The dear Madonna’s joy,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Lend me your innocence to pray", "") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "The thing her babe has told,—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That, though the head be Autumn grey,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "The heart be never old.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", "—Vautier Golding.") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", "Bournville, Sept. 1906") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
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DisplayImage("intro", "front6", "
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