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Ye who made war that your ships Should lay to at the beck of no nation, Make war now on Murder, that slips The leash of her hounds of damnation Ye who remembered the Alamo, Remember the Maine!

Richard Hovey

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Richard Hovey
Age: 35 †
Born: 1864
Born: May 4
Died: 1900
Died: February 24
Playwright
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Illinois
Lays
Leashes
Murder
Beck
Nation
Hounds
Nations
Maine
War
Damnation
Remember
Slips
Made
Ships
Alamo
Make
Remembered
Leash

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