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Text:The Present Crisis
Author:James Russell Lowell
Tune:ILSLEY
Composer:Frank G. Ilsley

21. The Present Crisis

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First Line: Once to every man and nation
Title: The Present Crisis
Author: James Russell Lowell
Meter: 8. 7. 8. 7. D.
Language: English
Publication Date: 1918
Source: Arr. from The Present Crisis, 1844
Tune Information
Name: ILSLEY
Composer: Frank G. Ilsley (1887)



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