My whole-of-blemish life itself had spoken,

Then would I rather die than let misthought

Of meaner mould by such a word be stifled.

Forget not that!

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That you deny. Now ere the time I know,

If death be overhasty on my footsteps,

What thing will make me quail in my last hour.

I saw, now years agone, a dying man

Upon a field of fight, on whom an insect