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My genius from a boy
Has fluttered like a bird within my heart;
But could not thus confined her power employ,
Impatient to depart.

Source: Myself.
-- George Moses Horton, ( c. 1800-1880), US poet; He sold love poems to students in an effort to buy his freedom, though he gained his liberty only with abolition; wrote Naked Genius, 1865.

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