"That was indeed to live— At one bold swoop to wrest From darkling death the best That Death to Life can give!"

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"An Ode on the Unveiling of the Shaw Memorial on Boston Common. May Thirty-First, 1897", The Poems of Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Vol. II (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1897), p. 207