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From her venerable sepulchre, with ever-burning funeral lamps, where was buried so much of mortal beauty, there is a constant voice of warning, which sounds across continent and ocean, echoing “Beware!
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Sumner uses a metaphor of a grave to convey a warning about the lessons of history.
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