Quote#Nature
The hounded stag that has escaped the pack
Quote byEmma Lazarus · 1849–1887
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Songs of a Semite (1882), "In Exile", st. 3.
English (original)
The hounded stag that has escaped the pack, And pants at ease within a thick-leaved dell; The unimprisoned bird that finds the track Through sun-bathed space, to where his fellows dwell; The martyr, granted respite from the rack, The death-doomed victim pardoned from his cell, — Such only know the joy these exiles gain, — Life's sharpest rapture is surcease of pain.
— Emma Lazarus
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