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''O Liberty, white Goddess! is it well'' ''To leave the gates unguarded? On thy breast'' Fold Sorrow’s children, soothe the hurts of Fate, Lift the down-trodden, but with hand of steel Stay those who to thy sacred portals come To waste the gifts of Freedom.
 * — Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Unguarded Gates