Eternal spirit of the chainless mind!
Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art,
For there thy habitation is the heart,—
The heart which love of thee alone can bind;
And when thy sons to fetters are consigned,—
To fetters, and the damp vault’s dayless gloom,—
Their country conquers with their martyrdom,
And Freedom’s fame finds wings on...
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THE LIBERATED PRISONER.
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BY MRS. LYDIA H. SIGOURNEY.
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I took a poor fly from a vase of ink,
Upon my feathery quill-top, which I turn'd
For his relief,—as erst old Egypt's scribes
Revers'd their stylus, for the benefit...No Prisoner be —
Where Liberty —
Himself — abide with Thee —A prisoner in a dungeon deep
Sat musing silently;
His head was rested on his hand,
His elbow on his knee.
Turned he his thoughts to future times
Or are they backward cast?
For freedom is he pining now
Or mourning for the past?
No, he has lived so long enthralled
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