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I seem, in most of these verses, to have but placed a harp in a window, and noted the contrasted airs which wayward winds have played upon the strings. - Herman Melville
Attribution: Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Prefatory words. “Battle-Pieces” (1866), p. 446, Collected Poems of Herman Melville, ed. Howard P. Vincent (1947). Describing the composition of his Civil War poetry.

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