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Brand Act III Part 1 · The Henrik Ibsen Library

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  Speaker 1: Act three part one of brand by henrik ibsen translated
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  Speaker 1: by charles harold hereford eighteen fifty three in nineteen thirty
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  Speaker 1: one this librivox recording is in the public domain recording
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  Speaker 1: by expatriate in bangor maine act three part one three
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  Speaker 1: years later a little garden by the parsonage a great
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  Speaker 1: precipice above a stone wall round the fiord narrow and
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  Speaker 1: pent in appears in the background the house-door opens upon
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  Speaker 1: the garden afternoon brand is standing on the steps outside
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  Speaker 1: the house agnes is sitting on the step at his
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  Speaker 1: feet agnes my dearest husband still your eye over the
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  Speaker 1: fiord roves anxiously i wait a summons agnes with brows
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  Speaker 1: bent brand my mother's summons this three years i've waited
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  Speaker 1: between hopes and fears the summons that was never sent
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  Speaker 1: to day twas told me past a doubt that her
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  Speaker 1: life's span is almost out agnes softly and tenderly brand
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  Speaker 1: without summons you should go brand shakes his head till
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  Speaker 1: she of her offence repent i have no comfort to
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  Speaker 1: bestow agnes she is your mother brand it were sin
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  Speaker 1: to worship idols in my kin agnes brand you are
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  Speaker 1: stern brand to you agnes oh no brand i warned
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  Speaker 1: you that the way was steep agnes it was not
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  Speaker 1: true you did not keep your word brand yes here
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  Speaker 1: the ice-wind rives your cheek has lost its youthful glow
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  Speaker 1: your tender heart is touched with snow our home is
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  Speaker 1: built where nothing thrives amid a barren waste of stone
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  Speaker 1: agnes it lies the safer then so prone beetles yon
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  Speaker 1: jutting mountain wall that when the leafy spring is near
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  Speaker 1: the brimming avalanche vaults sheer over our heads and we
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  Speaker 1: lie clear as in the hollow of a fall brand
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  Speaker 1: the sun we never see at all agnes oh yet
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  Speaker 1: he dances warm and bright atop yon mountain that we
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  Speaker 1: face brand for three weeks true at summer's height but
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  Speaker 1: never struggles to its base agnes looks fixedly at him
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  Speaker 1: rises and says brand there's one thought at which you
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  Speaker 1: shrink brand no you agnes no you brand within you
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  Speaker 1: bear a secret terror agnes which you share brand you
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  Speaker 1: reel as from a dizzy brink out with it speak
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  Speaker 1: it out agnes tis true i've trembled whiles hesitates brand
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  Speaker 1: trembled at what agnes for alf brand for alf agnes
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  Speaker 1: and so have you brand at times but no god
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  Speaker 1: takes him not god's merciful my child shall grow to
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  Speaker 1: be a strong man yet i know where is he
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  Speaker 1: now agnes he's sleeping brand looks in through the door
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  Speaker 1: see of pain and grief he dreams not he the
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  Speaker 1: little hand is plump and round agnes yet pale brand
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  Speaker 1: but that will pass agnes how deep restful and quickening
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  Speaker 1: is his sleep brand god bless thee in thy sleep
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  Speaker 1: grow sound shuts the door to all my labours you
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  Speaker 1: and he have brought light and tranquillity each irksome task
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  Speaker 1: each mournful care twas easy in your midst to bear
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  Speaker 1: you near i never felt dismay grew braver by his
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  Speaker 1: baby play a martyrdom i held my call but something
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  Speaker 1: has transformed it all success still follows my footfall agnes
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  Speaker 1: yes brand but you deserve success oh you have battled
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  Speaker 1: in storm and stress toiled on through woe and weariness
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  Speaker 1: but tears of blood you wept apart brand and yet
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  Speaker 1: it seemed so light a thing with you love stole
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  Speaker 1: upon my heart like a glad sunny day in spring
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  Speaker 1: in me love never had been lit no parent's hand
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  Speaker 1: had kindled it rather they quenched the fitful flashes that
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  Speaker 1: gleamed at moments in the ashes it was as though
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  Speaker 1: the tender soul that mute and darkling in me slept
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  Speaker 1: had closely garnered all been kept to be my sweet
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  Speaker 1: wife's agnes not mine alone but whosoe'er in our great
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  Speaker 1: household has a share each sorrowing son each needy brother
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  Speaker 1: each weeping child each mourning mother of quickening nurture have
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  Speaker 1: their part at the rich banquet of thy heart brand
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  Speaker 1: only through you two by your hand that heavenly bridge
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  Speaker 1: of love was spanned no single soul can all contain
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  Speaker 1: except it first have yearned for one i had to
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  Speaker 1: long and yearn in vain so my heart hardened into
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  Speaker 1: stone agnes and yet your love is merciless you chasten
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  Speaker 1: whom you would caress brand you agnes agnes me oh
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  Speaker 1: nay dear nay on me a lightsome load you lay
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  Speaker 1: but many falter at the call to offer nothing or
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  Speaker 1: else all what the world calls.
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  Speaker 2: By that name love i know not and i reck
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  Speaker 2: not of god's love i recognise alone which melts not
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  Speaker 2: at the piteous plaint which is not moved by dying
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  Speaker 2: groan and its caresses chastisement what answered through the olive-trees
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  Speaker 2: god when the sun in anguish lay praying oh take
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  Speaker 2: this cup away did he then take it nay child
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  Speaker 2: nay he made him drink it to the lees agnes
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  Speaker 2: by such a measure meted all the souls of earth
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  Speaker 2: are forfeited brand none knows on whom the doom shall
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  Speaker 2: fall but god in flaming speech hath said be faithful
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  Speaker 2: through the hour of strife haggling wins not the crown
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  Speaker 2: of life anguished repentance scales not heaven the martyr's doom
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  Speaker 2: you must fulfil that you lacked strength may be forgiven
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  Speaker 2: but never that you wanted will agnes yes it shall
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  Speaker 2: be as you have said o lift me to those
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  Speaker 2: heights you tread to your high heaven lead me forth
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  Speaker 2: my spirit is strong my flesh is frail oft anguish
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  Speaker 2: struck i faint i fail my clogged foot drags upon
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  Speaker 2: the earth brand see child of all men god makes
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  Speaker 2: one demand no coward compromise whose works half done or
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  Speaker 2: falsely done condemned with god his whole word lies we
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  Speaker 2: must give sanction to this teaching by living it and
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  Speaker 2: not by preaching agnes throws himself on his neck lead
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  Speaker 2: where you will i follow you brand no precipice is
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  Speaker 2: too steep for two enter the doctor he has come
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  Speaker 2: down the road and stops outside the garden fence the
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  Speaker 2: doctor ha loving doves at their caresses in these dark
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  Speaker 2: craggy wildernesses agnes my dear old doctor here at last
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  Speaker 2: come in come in runs down and opens the garden
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  Speaker 2: gate the doctor ho ho not so fast we first
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  Speaker 2: to settle an old score what tie yourself to this
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  Speaker 2: wild moor where piercing winds of winter tear like ice
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  Speaker 2: soul body to the core brand not soul the doctor
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  Speaker 2: not well i must admit that seems about the truth
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  Speaker 2: of it your hasty compact has an air of standing
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  Speaker 2: firm unmoved erect though otherwise one might expect by ancient
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  Speaker 2: usage soon to fade that which so suddenly was made
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  Speaker 2: agnes a sunbeam's kiss a bell's note may awaken for
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  Speaker 2: a summer's day the doctor a patient waits for me
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  Speaker 2: farewell brand my mother the doctor yes you also go
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  Speaker 2: brand not now the doctor have been i dare say
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  Speaker 2: brand no the doctor priest you are hard through mist
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  Speaker 2: and snow i've trudged across the desolate fell well knowing
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  Speaker 2: that she is of those who pay like paupers brand
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  Speaker 2: may god bless your skill and your unweariedness ease if
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  Speaker 2: you can her bitter throes the doctor bless my good
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  Speaker 2: will i tarried not a moment when i heard her
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  Speaker 2: state brand you she is summoned i'm forgot and sick
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  Speaker 2: at heart i wait i wait the doctor come without
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  Speaker 2: summons till she calls i have no place within those
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  Speaker 2: walls the doctor to agnes you hapless blossom laid within
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  Speaker 2: the pitiless grasp of such a lord brand i am
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  Speaker 2: not pitiless agnes he had poured his blood to wash
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  Speaker 2: her soul from sin brand unasked upon myself i took
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  Speaker 2: the clearance of her debit book the doctor clear off
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  Speaker 2: your own brand one man may get hundreds acquitted in
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  Speaker 2: god's eyes the doctor ay not a beggar though who
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  Speaker 2: lies himself o'er head and ears in debt brand beggar
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  Speaker 2: or rich with all my soul i will and that
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  Speaker 2: one thing's the whole the doctor yes in your ledger
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  Speaker 2: truly will has enough entries and to spare but priest
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  Speaker 2: your love account is still a virgin chapter blank and
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  Speaker 2: bare goes brand follows him awhile with his eyes never
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  Speaker 2: did words so sorely prove the smirch of lies as
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  Speaker 2: this word love with devilish craft where will is frail
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  Speaker 2: men lay love over as a veil and cunningly conceal
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  Speaker 2: thereby that all their life is coquetry whose paths the
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  Speaker 2: steep and perilous slope let him but love and he
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  Speaker 2: may shirk it if he prefers sin's easy circuit let
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  Speaker 2: him but love he still may hope if god he
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  Speaker 2: seeks but fears the fray let him but love tis
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  Speaker 2: straight his prey if with wide-open eyes he err let
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  Speaker 2: him but love there's safety there agnes yes it is
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  Speaker 2: false yet still i fall questioning is it after all
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  Speaker 2: brand one point's omitted first the will law's thirst for
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  Speaker 2: righteousness must still you must first will not only things
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  Speaker 2: attainable in more or less nor only where the action
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  Speaker 2: brings some hardship and some weariness no you must will
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  Speaker 2: with flashing eyes your way through all earth's agonies it
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  Speaker 2: is not martyrdom to toss in anguish on the deadly
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  Speaker 2: cross but to have willed to perish so to will
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  Speaker 2: it through each bodily throe to will it with still
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  Speaker 2: tortured mind this only this redeems mankind agnes clinging closely
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  Speaker 2: to him if at the terrible call i cower speak
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  Speaker 2: strong souled husband in that hour brand if will has
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  Speaker 2: conquered in that strife then comes at length the hour
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  Speaker 2: of love then it descends like a white dove bearing
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  Speaker 2: the olive-leaf of life but in this nerveless slothful state
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  Speaker 2: the true the sovereign love is hate in horror hate
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  Speaker 2: hate oh titans toil to will that one brief easy
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  Speaker 2: syllable goes hurriedly into the house agnes looking through the
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  Speaker 2: open door he kneels beside his little son and heaves
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  Speaker 2: as if with bursts of tears he clutches close the
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  Speaker 2: bed like one that knows no refuge from his fears
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  Speaker 2: oh what a wealth of tender ruth lies hidden in
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  Speaker 2: this breast of steel alf he dares love the baby
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  Speaker 2: heel has not yet felt earth's serpent tooth cries out
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  Speaker 2: in terror ha he leaps up with ashy brow wringing
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  Speaker 2: his hands what sees he now brand coming out a
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  Speaker 2: summons came agnes no summons no brand looking back into
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  Speaker 2: the house his parched skin burns in fever glow his
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  Speaker 2: temples throb his pulses race oh fear not agnes agnes
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  Speaker 2: god of grace brand nay have no fear calls out
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  Speaker 2: over the road the summons see a man through the
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  Speaker 2: garden gate you must come now priest brand instantly what
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  Speaker 2: message the man a mysterious one sitting in bed she
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  Speaker 2: forward bent and said get the priest here begone my
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  Speaker 2: half-goods for the sacrament brand starts back her half-goods no
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  Speaker 2: say no the man shakes his head my word would
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  Speaker 2: then not utter what i heard brand half half it
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  Speaker 2: was the whole she meant the man maybe but she
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  Speaker 2: spoke loud and high and i don't easily forget brand
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  Speaker 2: seizes his arm before god's judgment will you yet dare
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  Speaker 2: to attest she spoke it the man i brand firmly
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  Speaker 2: go tell her this reply was sent nor priest shall
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  Speaker 2: come nor sacrament the man looking at him doubtfully you
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  Speaker 2: surely have not understood it is your mother that appeals
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  Speaker 2: i know no law that sternlier deals with strangers than
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  Speaker 2: with kindred blood the man a hard word that brand
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  Speaker 2: she knows the call to offer nothing or else all
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  Speaker 2: the man priest brand dock the gold calf as she
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  Speaker 2: will say it remains an idol still the man the
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  Speaker 2: scourge you send her i will lay as gently on
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  Speaker 2: her as i may she has this comfort left her
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  Speaker 2: too god is not quite so hard as you goes
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  Speaker 2: brand yes with that comfort's carrion breath the world still
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  Speaker 2: sickens unto death prompt in its need with shriek and
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  Speaker 2: song to lubricate the judge's tongue of course the reasonable
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  Speaker 2: plan for from of old they know their man since
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  Speaker 2: all his works the assurance breathe you graybeard may be
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  Speaker 2: haggled with the man has met another man on the
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  Speaker 2: road they come back together a second message first man
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  Speaker 2: yes brand to the second man consent second man nine-tenths
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  Speaker 2: of it is now the word brand not all second
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  Speaker 2: man not all brand as you have heard nor priest
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  Speaker 2: shall come nor sacrament second man she begged it bitterly
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  Speaker 2: distressed first man priest once she bore you on her
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  Speaker 2: breast brand clutching his hands i may not by two
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  Speaker 2: measures weigh my kinsman and my enemy second man sore
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  Speaker 2: is her state and dire her need come or else
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  Speaker 2: send her a godspeed brand to first man go tell
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  Speaker 2: her still god's wine and bread must on a spotless
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  Speaker 2: board be spread the men go agnes i tremble brand
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  Speaker 2: you seem a sword swung flaming by a wrathful lord
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  Speaker 2: brand with tears in his voice does not the world
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  Speaker 2: face me no less with swordless sheath upon its thigh
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  Speaker 2: am i not torn and baffled by its dull defiant
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  Speaker 2: stubbornness agnes a hard condition you demand brand dare you
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  Speaker 2: impose a lighter agnes lay that stern demand on whom
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  Speaker 2: you may and see who tested so will stand brand
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  Speaker 2: nay you have reason for that fear so base distorted
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  Speaker 2: barren seer the aspiring soul in men is grown tis
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  Speaker 2: thought a marvel by bequest to give away one's wealth
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  Speaker 2: unknown and be anonymously blest the hero bid him blot
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  Speaker 2: his name content him with the service wrought kings kaisers
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  Speaker 2: bid them do the same and see how many fields
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  Speaker 2: are fought the poet bid him unbeholden loose his bright
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  Speaker 2: fledglings from the cage so that none dream he gave
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  Speaker 2: that golden plumage and he that vocal rage try the
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  Speaker 2: green bough or try the bare sacrifice is not anywhere
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  Speaker 2: earth has enslaved all earthly things over life's precipices cast
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  Speaker 2: each to its mouldering branches clings and if they crumble
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  Speaker 2: clutches fast with tooth and nail to straws and bast
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  Speaker 2: agnes and while they helpless hopeless fall you cry give
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  Speaker 2: nothing or give all he who would conquer still must
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  Speaker 2: fight rise fallen to the highest height a brief silence
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  Speaker 2: his voice changes and yet when with that stern demand
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  Speaker 2: before some living soul i stand i seem like one
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  Speaker 2: that floats afar storm-shattered on a broken spar with solitary
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  Speaker 2: anguish rung i've bitten this chastising tongue and thirsted as
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  Speaker 2: i aimed the blow to clasp the bosom of my
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  Speaker 2: foe go agnes watch the sleeping boy and sing him
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  Speaker 2: into dreams of joy an infant's soul is like the
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  Speaker 2: sleep of still clear tarns in summer light a mother
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  Speaker 2: over it may sweep and hover like the bird whose
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  Speaker 2: flight is mirrored in the deepest deep agnes what does
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  Speaker 2: it mean brand wheresoe'er you aim your thought shafts they
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  Speaker 2: fly there brand oh nothing softly watch the child agnes
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  Speaker 2: give me a watchword brand stern agnes no mild brand
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  Speaker 2: clasping her the blameless shall not taste the grave agnes
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  Speaker 2: looking brightly up at him then one is ours god
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  Speaker 2: may not crave goes into the house brand looking fixedly
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  Speaker 2: before him but if he might what isaac's fear once
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  Speaker 2: ventured he may venture here shakes off the thought no
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  Speaker 2: no my sacrifice is made the calling of my life
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  Speaker 2: gain said like the lord's thunder to go forth and
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  Speaker 2: rouse the sleepers of the earth sacrifice liar there was
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  Speaker 2: none i missed it when my dream was done when
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  Speaker 2: agnes woke me and followed free to labour in the
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  Speaker 2: gloom with me looks along the road why tarry still
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  Speaker 2: the dying call her word that she will offer all
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  Speaker 2: that she is one that which uproots sin's deepest fibres
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  Speaker 2: rankest shoots see there no it is but the mayor
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  Speaker 2: well-meaning brisk and debonair both hands and pockets round remiss
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  Speaker 2: a bracketed parenthesis enter mayor the mayor through the garden
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  Speaker 2: gate good day our meetings are but rare perhaps my
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  Speaker 2: time is chosen amiss brand pointing to house come in
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  Speaker 2: the mayor thanks here i'm quite content should my proposal
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  Speaker 2: meet assent i'm very sure the upshot of it would
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  Speaker 2: issue in our common profit brand name your desire the
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  Speaker 2: mayor your mother's state i understand is desperate i'm sorry
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  Speaker 2: brand that i do not doubt the mayor i'm very
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  Speaker 2: sorry brand pray speak out the mayor she's old however
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  Speaker 2: well-a-day we are all bound the selfsame way and as
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  Speaker 2: i just drove by occurred the thought that after all
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  Speaker 2: to leap is just as easy as to creep moreover
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  Speaker 2: many have averred that she and you have been imbrued
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  Speaker 2: for years in a domestic feud brand domestic feud the
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  Speaker 2: mayor she's out and out close fisted so they say
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  Speaker 2: you know you think it goes too far no doubt
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  Speaker 2: a man's own claims he can't forego she keeps exclusive
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  Speaker 2: occupation of all that was bequeathed to you brand exclusive
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  Speaker 2: occupation true the mayor a ready cause of irritation in
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  Speaker 2: families surmising thence that you await with resignation the moment
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  Speaker 2: of her going hence i hope i may without offence
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  Speaker 2: speak out although i quite admit the time i've chosen
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  Speaker 2: is unfit brand or now or later naught i care
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  Speaker 2: the mayor well to the point then fair and square
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  Speaker 2: when once your mother's dead and blest in the earth's
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  Speaker 2: bosom laid to rest you're rich brand you think so
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  Speaker 2: the mayor think nay man that's sure she's land in
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  Speaker 2: every port far as a telescope can scan you're rich
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  Speaker 2: brand spite the succession court the mayor what of it
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  Speaker 2: that cuts matters short when many fight for pelf and
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  Speaker 2: debt here no man's interest suffers let brand and what
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  Speaker 2: if some day all the same came a co-heir to
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  Speaker 2: debt and pelf crying i'm he and urged his claim
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  Speaker 2: the mayor he'd have to be the devil himself just
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  Speaker 2: look to me none else has here the smallest right
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  Speaker 2: to interfere i know my business lean on me well
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  Speaker 2: then you'll now be well-to-do rich even you'll no longer
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  Speaker 2: brook life in this god-forsaken nook the whole land's open
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  Speaker 2: now to you mayor is not what you want to
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  Speaker 2: say pithily put just go away The mayor. Pretty much that.
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  Speaker 2: All parties good were so best answered. If you would
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  Speaker 2: but eye attentively the herd to whom you minister God's word,
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  Speaker 2: you'd find you're no more of a piece with them
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  Speaker 2: than foxes are with geese. Pray, understand me. You have gifts,
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  Speaker 2: good where the social field is wide, but dangerous for
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  Speaker 2: folk whose pride is to be lords of rocky rifts
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  Speaker 2: and freemen of the ravine side.
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  Speaker 1: Brand.
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  Speaker 2: To a man's feet his native haunt is as unto
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  Speaker 2: the tree the root if there his labour fill no
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  Speaker 2: want his deeds are doomed his music mute end of
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  Speaker 2: act three part one recording by expatriate in bangor