“To-day unbind the captive,
So only are ye unbound;
Lift up a people from the dust,
Trump of their rescue, sound!”

—  Ralph Waldo Emerson

Boston Hymn, st. 17
1860s, May-Day and Other Pieces (1867)

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American philosopher, essayist, and poet 1803–1882

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