Quote #3
If e'er thy breast with freedom glow'd, And spurn'd a tyrant's chain, Let not thy strong oppressive force A free-born mouse detain.
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- Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping?
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- It is to hope, though hope were lost.
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- So fades a summer cloud away; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er; So gently shuts the eye of day; So dies a wave along the shore.