Oh the heart is a free and a fetterless thing,—
A wave of the ocean, a bird on the wing!
Julia Pardoe (1816-1862): The Captive Greek Girl.
Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die,
But leave us still our old nobility.
Lord John Manners (1818- ——): England's Trust. Part iii. Line 227.
Why thus longing, thus forever sighing
For the far-off, unattain'd, and dim,
While the beautiful all round thee lying
Offers up its low, perpetual hymn?