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Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight

The Oxford Companion to American Literature | 1995 | | Â© The Oxford Companion to American Literature 1995, originally published by Oxford University Press 1995. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight, ballad by Rose Hartwick Thorpe.

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