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PATRIOTS OF MANKIND by CHRISTOPHER SMART

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First Line: ARE WE NOT ALL OF RACE DIVINE
Last Line: AND LET'S BE PATRIOTS OF MANKIND.
Subject(s): FREEDOM; MANKIND; LIBERTY; HUMAN RACE;

Are we not all of race divine,
Alike of an immortal line?
Shall man to man afford derision
But for some casual division?
To malice and to mischief prone,
From climate, canton, and from zone,
Parties and distinctions make
For parties' and distinction's sake?
Souls sprung from an ethereal flame,
However clad, are still the same;
Nor should we judge the heart or head
By air we breathe, or earth we tread.
Give prejudices to the wind,
And let's be patriots of mankind.



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