“The soft blue sky did never melt
Into his heart; he never felt
The witchery of the soft blue sky!”
Part I, stanza 15.
Peter Bell (1798)
“Soft-brained people, weak-minded, chicken-hearted, cannot find the truth. One has to be free, and as broad as the sky.”
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