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"Be NOBLE! and the nobleness that lies In other men, sleeping, but never dead, Will rise in majesty to meet thine own."

January 1, 1970

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Original Language: English

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James Russell Lowell, "Sonnet IV", The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (1900), p. 20. Inscribed, with some changes in capitalziation and line breaks, on the south facade of Union Station, Washington, D.C.

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James Russell Lowell, "Sonnet IV", The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (1900), p. 20. Inscribed, with some changes in capitalziation and line breaks, on the south facade of Union Station, Washington, D.C.