Quote #108
Let the blue sky overhead, The green earth on which ye tread, All that must eternal be Witness the solemnity.
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- What if English toil and blood Was poured forth, even as a flood? It availed, Oh, Liberty, To dim, but not extinguish thee.
- Be your strong and simple words Keen to wound as sharpened swords, And wide as targes let them be, With their shade to cover ye.
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- Stand ye calm and resolute, Like a forest close and mute, With folded arms and looks which are Weapons of unvanquished war.
- What is Freedom? - ye can tell That which slavery is, too well - For its very name has grown To an echo of your own.
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