| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 61298 |
| QUOTATION: | What if, both mad and blinded in their rage, Our foes should fling us down their mortal gage, And with a hostile step profane our sod! We shall not shrink, my brothers, but go forth |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Henry Timrod (18281867), U.S. poet. Ethnogenesis (l. 3639). . .
Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Press. |
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