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Excerpt from Ballads of Brave Deeds
Rush of comrades, not even in the forgetfulness of momentary excitement, but with the calm deliberate ness of what may without exaggeration be called divine sympathy, undaunted by certain peril and often in the face of repeated failure that might justify abandonment of effort. The known history of the world affords nothing more worthy of profound admiration. These deeds, happily far from uncom mon, will more than anything else constitute in the far future our claim to be considered a noble people. When our material successes may be more than rivalled by peoples and states now undreamed of; inspired by the highest human impulse, by the secret of these deeds, the beating of the great heart of the.
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