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How do men...

Source: DRAMATISTS

How do men act, when they together stand,
on the last perch of this swiftly-sinking wreck?
Do they not bravely give their parting cheer,
And make their last voice loud and boIdly sound
Amidst the hollow roarings of the storm?

Source: Constantine Paleologus, Act V, Sc. I, 1804.
-- Joanna Baillie, (Sep 11 1762-1851), Scottish poet, dramatist; Her plays, mainly in verse, were highly praised at a period when serious drama was in decline; wrote her Plays on the Passions, 3 vol., 1798-1812.


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