As life itself, and from the selfsame womb;
Life, liberty, and love,—lien undefiled,—
The freeborn mother’s heirloom to her freeborn child.
XLV.
So shall her noble issue, maid or boy,
With equal freedom equal fate enjoy;
Together reared in purity and truth,
Through plastic childhood and retentive youth;
Their mutual sports of sinew and of brain
In strength alike the sturdy comrades train;