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Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice; The confidence of reason give, And in the light of truth thy bondman let me live!

Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice; The confidence of reason give, And in the light of truth thy bondman let me live!

Approximate author period: c. 1810 AD · industrial

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Author or tradition
William Wordsworth
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Approximate author period: c. 1810 AD · industrial
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Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)

Ode to Duty.

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