“Zealous, yet modest; innocent, though free;
Patient of toil, serene amidst alarms;
Inflexible in faith, invincible in arms.”

— James Beattie

Book i. Stanza 11.
The Minstrel; or, The Progress of Genius (1771)

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Scottish poet, moralist and philosopher 1735–1803

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