TO A REPUBLICAN FRIEND, 1848.
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od knows it, I am with you. If to prizeThose virtues, prized and practised by too few,But prized, but loved, but eminent in you,Man’s fundamental life; if to despise The barren optimistic sophistriesOf comfortable moles, whom what they doTeaches the limit of the just and true(And for such doing they require not eyes);
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