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First Line: There are who climb the mountain's heathery side
Last Line: There throned in peace divine is liberty!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Freedom; Pellico, Sivio (1789-1854); Prisons & Prisoners; Liberty; Convicts


THERE are who climb the mountain's heathery side,
Or, in life's vernal strength triumphant, urge
The bark's fleet rushing through the crested surge,
Or spur the courser's fiery race of pride
Over the green savannahs, gleaming wide
By some vast lake; yet thus, on foaming sea,
Or chainless wild, reign far less nobly free
Than thou, in that lone dungeon, glorified
By thy brave suffering. Thou from its dark cell
Fierce thought and baleful passion didst exclude,
Filling the dedicated solitude
With God; and where His Spirit deigns to dwell,
Though the worn frame in fetters withering lie,
There throned in peace Divine is liberty!





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