Religion
XXXVIII
From Poems and Ballads (Third Series)
Religion
That while thy free folk hold the van
Of all men, and the sea-spray shed
As dew more heavenly on thy head
Keeps bright thy face in sight of man,
Man's pride shall drop not dead.
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