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Spoken by Miss Ada Rehan at the Lyceum Theatre, July 23, 1890, at a performance on behalf of Lady Jenne's Holiday Fund for City Children


BEFORE we part to alien thoughts and aims,
Permit the one brief word the occasion claims;
—When mumming and grave projects are allied,
Perhaps an Epilogue is justified.

Our under-purpose has, in truth, to-day
Commanded most our musings; least the play:

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