In separating myself from you, whom I love as the representatives of a sublime idea—the idea of Italian deliverance—I am excited and sad; but consolation comes in the certainty that I shall very soon be among you again, to aid you in finishing the work so gloriously begun.
Announcing a temporary separation from his forces, he expressed his emotional attachment and certainty of returning to complete their mission.
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Rome, which I had before admired and thought of frequently, I ever since have loved.
The friend dear to my heart was sunk in the waves of that ocean which he had not feared, in his desire to join with me in serving the cause of mankind.
She will feel the want of them in the day when she shall rise to drive the ravens from the corpses which they devour.
Although certainly not superstitious, often, amidst the most arduous scenes of my tumultuous life, when I have passed unharmed through the breakers of the ocean, or the hail-storms of battle, she has seemed present with me.
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