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The dead have been awakened - shall I sleep? / The World's at war with tyrants - shall I crouch? / The harvest's ripe - and shall I pause to reap? / I slumber not; the thorn is in my Couch; / Each day a trumpet soundeth in mine ear, / Its echo in my heart - -
June 19, 1823. First published, Letters, 1901, vi. 238.