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Rh Or, in the verse of Schiller, which Thoreau himself read at the funeral service for John Brown on the day of his execution, we may say:

&quot; His life is bright, bright without spot it was, And cannot cease to be. No ominous hour Knocks at his door with tidings of mishap : Far off is he, above desire and fear, No more submitted to the chance and change Of the unsteady planets.&quot;