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Measure a wave with it,
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measure fire,
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cut sorrow up in inches, weigh content.
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You can weigh John Brown's body well enough,
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but how and in what balance do you weigh John Brown?
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He had no gift for life, no gift to bring life,
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but his body and a cutting edge, and he knew how to die."
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More on old John Brown coming up.
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The year before John Brown's raid the most important,
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the most exhilarating,
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and by far the most substantively interesting political debates
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in American history would occur in Illinois,