<h2><SPAN name="TO_A_SILVER_DOLLAR" id="TO_A_SILVER_DOLLAR"></SPAN>TO A SILVER DOLLAR</h2>
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<span class="i0">Pale coin, what various hands have you passed through<br/></span>
<span class="i2">Ere you to-day within my hand were laid?<br/></span>
<span class="i2">Perchance a laborer’s well-earned hire you made;<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Some miser may have gloated long on you;<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Perhaps some pitying hand to Want outthrew;<br/></span>
<span class="i2">And, lost and won through devious tricks of trade,<br/></span>
<span class="i2">You may have been, alas! the full price paid<br/></span>
<span class="i0">For some poor soul that loved you past your due.<br/></span></div>
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<span class="i0">No doubt ’tis well, O imaged Liberty,<br/></span>
<span class="i2">You see not where your placid face is thrust,<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Nor know how far man is from being free,<br/></span>
<span class="i2">Bound as he is by money’s fateful lust,<br/></span>
<span class="i0">While to his anxious soul like mockery<br/></span>
<span class="i2">Seem those fair, graven words: “In God we trust.”<br/></span>
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