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1. Great are the myths -- I too delight in them; / Great are Adam and Eve -- I too look back and accept them; / Great the risen and fallen nations, and their poets, women, sages, / inventors, rulers, warriors, and priests.
Great is Liberty! great is Equality! I am their follower; / Helmsmen of nations, choose your craft! where you sail, I sail, / I weather it out with you, or sink with you.