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"Strike--for your altars and your fires! Strike--for the green graves of your sires! God, and your native land!"
Marco Bozzaris.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"But to the hero, when his sword Has won the battle for the free, Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word; And in its hollow tones are heard The thanks of millions yet to be."
Marco Bozzaris.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"One of the few, the immortal names, That were not born to die."
Marco Bozzaris.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Such graves as his are pilgrim shrines, Shrines to no code or creed confined,-- The Delphian vales, the Palestines, The Meccas of the mind."
Burns.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Green be the turf above thee, Friend of my better days! None knew thee but to love thee, Nor named thee but to praise."
On the Death of Joseph Rodman Drake.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"There is an evening twilight of the heart, When its wild passion-waves are lulled to rest."
Twilight.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"They love their land because it is their own, And scorn to give aught other reason why; Would shake hands with a king upon his throne, And think it kindness to his Majesty."
Connecticut.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"This bank-note world."
Alnwick Castle.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Lord Stafford mines for coal and salt, The Duke of Norfolk deals in malt, The Douglas in red herrings."
Alnwick Castle.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain