The dead have been awakened -- shall I sleep The world's at war with tyrants -- shall I crouch the harvest's ripe -- and shall I pause to reap I slumber not the thorn is in my couch Each day a trumpet soundeth in mine ear, its echo in my heart.
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An old man With an old soul, and both extremely blind.
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