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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Poet's Tribute: Poems |
| Author | William Bingham Tappan |
| Publisher | D. S. King and Crocker & Brewster, 1840 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 24 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 325 pages |
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