and it all falls
best friends are the ones who we can tell anything. ha!
if spoken aloud, it becomes real. i could never become a great leader or martyr.
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Greater than memory of Achilles or Ulysses,
more, more by far to thee than tomb of Alexander,
Those cart loads of old charnel ashes, scales and splints
of mouldy bones,
Once living men-once resolute courage, aspiration,
strength,
The stepping sotnes to thee to-day and here, America.
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Greater than memory of Achilles or Ulysses,
more, more by far to thee than tomb of Alexander,
Those cart loads of old charnel ashes, scales and splints
of mouldy bones,
Once living men-once resolute courage, aspiration,
strength,
The stepping sotnes to thee to-day and here, America.