Quote#Homeland
Strike—for your altars and your fires!
Quote byFitz-Greene Halleck · 1790–1867
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Marco Bozzaris in memory of the Greek revolutionary hero ..
English (original)
Strike—for your altars and your fires! Strike—for the green graves of your sires! God, and your native land!
— Fitz-Greene Halleck
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Such graves as his are pilgrim shrines, Shrines to no code or creed confined,— The Delphian vales, the Palestines, The Meccas of the mind.
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