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[There was a time when my cheek burned]
There was a time when my cheek burned
To give such scornful fiends the lie
Ungoverned nature madly spurned
The law that bade it not defy
O in the days of ardent youth
I would have given my life for truth
To give such scornful fiends the lie
Ungoverned nature madly spurned
The law that bade it not defy
O in the days of ardent youth
I would have given my life for truth
For truth, for right, for liberty
I would have gladly, freely died
And now I calmly hear and see
The vain man smile the fool deride
Though not because my heart is tame
Though not for fear though not for shame
I would have gladly, freely died
And now I calmly hear and see
The vain man smile the fool deride
Though not because my heart is tame
Though not for fear though not for shame
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My soul still chafes at every tone
Of selfish and self-blinded error
My breast still braves the world alone
Steeled as it ever was to terror
Only I know however I frown
The same world will go rolling on
Of selfish and self-blinded error
My breast still braves the world alone
Steeled as it ever was to terror
Only I know however I frown
The same world will go rolling on
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