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Mortals, that would follow me, Love Virtue: she alone is free; She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime: Or if Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her.
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Sumner quotes a poem that emphasizes the importance of virtue and its liberating power.
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