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 INDEPENDENCE

life more civil is and free

Than any civil polity.

Ye princes, keep your realms

And circumscribèd power,

Not wide as are my dreams,

Nor rich as is this hour.

What can ye give which I have not?

What can ye take which I have got?

Can ye defend the dangerless?

Can ye inherit nakedness?

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