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What is a law, if those who make it
Become the forwardest to break it?
--
The Wolf and Shepherds (1776).

 

James Beattie

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Break O break open 'till they break the town
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Break, break, break,
On thy cold gray stones, O Sea!
And I would that my tongue could utter
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Break, break, break
At the foot of thy crags, O Sea!
But the tender grace of a day that is dead
Will never come back to me.

 

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It was the warrior within
Who called 'Awake, prepare for fight:
Yet lose not memory in the din:
Make of thy gentleness thy might:
'Make of thy silence words to shake
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Make of thy will the force to break
Their towers of wantonness and mirth.'

 

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You'll find out I was never sand at all, but a seed, and out of death I'll make life. You can't break me. And whatever plan you have in mind, you can't make me.

 

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