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Freedom's Offering,

A Collection of Poems.
  
  
  

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“Not that I feel that hunger after fame,
Which souls of half greatness are beset with;
But that the memory of noble deeds
Cries shame upon the idle and the vile,
And keeps the heart of man forever up
To the heroic level of old time.
—[Lowell.