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But let the good old corn adorn
The hills our fathers trod;
Still let us, for his golden corn,
Send up our thanks to God!

— John Greenleaf Whittier The Corn-Song: Quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)

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O, brother man! fold to thy heart thy brother;
where pity dwells, the peace of God is there.

Shoot, if you must, this old gray head,
But spare your country's flag," she said.

Barbara Frietchie (1863)

The windows of my soul I throw
Wide open to the sun.

When faith is lost, when honor dies
The man is dead!

Life is ever lord of Death
And Love can never lose its own.

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