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A MEDLEY.
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The highest is the measure of the man,And not the Caffre, Hottentot, Malay,Nor those horn-handed breakers of the glebe,But Homer, Plato, Verulam; even soWith woman: and in arts of governmentElizabeth and others; arts of warThe peasant Joan and others; arts of graceSappho and others vied with any man:And she, tho' last not least, who had left her place,And bow'd her state to them, that they might growTo use and power on this Oasis, laptIn the arms of leisure, sacred from the blightOf ancient influence and scorn.'
At lastShe rose upon a wind of prophecyDilating on the future; 'everywhereTwo heads in council, two beside the hearth,Two in the tangled business of the world,Two in the liberal offices of life,
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