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The Prize-Fight [from Harper's Monthly for December]

O'Brien, Fitz-James. "The Prize-Fight [from Harper's Monthly for December]." Saturday Press. 20 Nov. 1858: 1.
Type: 
newspaper
Genre: 
poetry
Abstract: 

A boxing match is set amidst a peaceful community surrounded by nature's beauty. Two "lusty and tall" youths without malice toward one another are egged on by a “bestial crowd” of ruffians. They fight until their faces are but "illegible masses of flesh."

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