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Strike—for your altars and your fires!
Strike—for the green graves of your sires!
God, and your native land!

— Fitz-Greene Halleck

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More quotes by Fitz-Greene Halleck

There is an evening twilight of the heart,
When its wild passion-waves are lulled to rest.

Green be the turf above thee,
Friend of my better days!
None knew thee but to love thee,
Nor named thee but to praise.

Come when the heart beats high and warm,
With banquet song, and dance, and wine!

One of the few, the immortal names,
That were not born to die.

Ere the dolphin dies
Its hues are brightest. Like an infant's breath
Are tropic winds before the voice of death.

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