"Green sods are all their monument; and yet it tells A nobler history than pillared piles, Or the eternal pyramids."
"I am one who finds within me a nobility that spurns the idle pratings of the great, and their mean boasts of what their fathers were, while they themselves are fools effeminate."
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Source: James Gates Percival, Erasmus Darwin North (1866). “The Poetical Works of James Gates Percival: With a Biographical Sketch”, p.170
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