Nathanael Greene (1742–1786) American general in the American Revolutionary War
Letter to George Washington (31 October 1776)
“… we shall board our imagined ship and wildly sail among sacred islands of the mad till death shatters the fabulous stars and makes us real.”
Source: The Collected Poems
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