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BRIAN HOOKER

INTRODUCTION BY

CLAYTON HAMILTON

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It was to the soul of CYRANO that I intended to dedicate this poem.

But since that soul has been reborn in you, COQUELIN, it is to you that dedicate it.

E. R.