English Song Originally

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    “The English did not come to America from a mere love of adventure, nor to truck with or convert the savages, nor to hold offices under the crown, as the French to a great extent did, but to live in earnest and with freedom.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “How shall we sing the Lord’s song in a strange land?
    If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.”
    —Bible: Hebrew Psalm CXXXVII (l. CXXXVII, 4–5)

    “Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man.”
    —Ezra Pound (1885–1972)