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James Russell Lowell - Three Memorial Poems
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`Coscienza fusca
  O della propria o dell` altrui vergogna
  Pur sentira la tua parola brusca.`


If I let fall a word of bitter mirth
When public shames more shameful pardon won,
Some have misjudged me, and my service done,
If small, yet faithful, deemed of little worth:
Through veins that drew their life from Western earth
Two hundred years and more my blood hath run
In no polluted course from sire to son;
And thus was I predestined ere my birth
To love the soil wherewith my fibres own
Instinctive sympathies; yet love it so
As honor would, nor lightly to dethrone
Judgment, the stamp of manhood, nor forego
The son`s right to a mother dearer grown
With growing knowledge and more chaste than snow.
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