“One rich thing—or, it may be, more than this....

Might I not reach the borders of a land

That ought to have been mine? And there, the bliss

Of free speech, there the eyes that understand,

The men free grown, not modelled by the hand

Of masters—men that know, or men that seek,

—They will not gape and murmur when I speak.”

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Then, as he ceased, amid the farther wall

He saw a curtained and low lintelled door;