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BOOK FIRST
I. All valor died not on the plains of Troy. / Awake, my Muse, awake! be thine the joy / To sing of deeds as dauntless and as brave / As e'er lent luster to a warrior's grave. / Sing of that noble soldier, nobler man, / Dear to the heart of each American. / Sound forth his praise from sea to listening sea -- / Greece her Achilles claimed, immortal Custer, we.