Carolina QuotesThe freeman casting with unpurchased hand The vote that shakes the turrets of the land.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Connected to the Carolinas
Source
"Poetry, a Metrical Essay", Poems (1836)
- year
- 1836
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“The freeman casting with unpurchased hand The vote that shak…” Oliver Wendell Holmes. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-9133CBBF87. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/9133cbbf87
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When the last reader reads no more.
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