“Another's sword has laid him low,
Another's and another's;
And every hand that dealt the blow—
Ah me! it was a brother's!”

— Thomas Campbell

O'Connor's Child, Stanza 10
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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British writer 1777–1844

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