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  1. They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak; They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing, and abuse, Rather than…
  2. I first drew in New England's air, and from her hardy breast Sucked in the tyrant-hating milk that will not let me rest.
  3. No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him. There is always work, And tools to work withal, for those who will; And bles…
  4. Before man made us citizens, great Nature made us men.
  5. From lower to the higher next, Not to the top, is Nature's text; And embryo Good, to reach full stature, Absorbs the Evil in its nature.
  6. The birch, most shy and lady-like of trees, Her poverty, as best she may, retrieves, And hints at her foregone gentilities With some saved …
  7. The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment.
  8. They came three thousand miles, and died, To keep the Past upon its throne; Unheard, beyond the ocean tide, Their English mother made her m…

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