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Time the Sovereign Healer

That which was three hundred years being
woven into the warp and woof of our democratic
institutions could not be effaced by a
single battle, magnificent as was that battle;

that which for centuries had bound master and
slave, yea, North and South, to a body of
death, could not be blotted out by four years
of war, could not be atoned for by shot and
sword, nor blood and tears.

Shaw Monument Unveiling (Boston).