Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 67
to gallant genera-tions, may, as the wheel of time turns, fall to indolent 42 Book of Patriotism savages, listless slaves, or sordid money-getters. Byronhas told us this in lines which the men of his own timefelt were instinct with creative genius, but which thetaste of the day rejects for… … Approach, thou craven, crouching slave j Say, is not this Thermopylae ? These waters blue that round you lave, 0 servile offspring of the free —Pronounce what sea, what shore is this?The gulf, the rock of Salamis! Twere long to tell and sad to trace,Each step from splendor to disgrace;Enough — no…
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