<h2><SPAN name="A_PLEDGE" id="A_PLEDGE"></SPAN>A Pledge.</h2>
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<span class="i0"><span class="letra">I</span> SIT alone, to-night—to-day our two roads meet,<br/></span>
<span class="i0">You helped me find the right, and I will not forget;<br/></span>
<span class="i0">I’m pledged to do my best with lips that will not lie,<br/></span>
<span class="i0">To strive with mind and heart as all the days go by.<br/></span></div>
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<span class="i0">You looked so strong and bold when all was done and said—<br/></span>
<span class="i0">You have a heart of gold—and I have one of lead—<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Some day I’ll climb the height, if fortune fair betide,<br/></span>
<span class="i0">I only know to-night the world is strangely wide.<br/></span></div>
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