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"Thy spirit, Independence, let me share; Lord of the lion heart and eagle eye, Thy steps I follow with my bosom bare, Nor heed the storm that howls along the sky."
Tobias Smollett / Ode to Independence.
Ode to Independence.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain