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                      The Elements of Freedom

                      Published by David Dephy at September 5, 2022
                      Categories
                      • Poetry
                      Tags
                      • American revolution freedom
                      • American revolution poetry
                      • freedom
                      • poetry
                      Freedom - USA Flag, Constitution and diverse hands

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                      The elements of freedom
                      are the words in silence,
                      they dwell in the mind
                      of perfect bliss, they love
                      to rest their spirits
                      in mother-silence’s bosom,
                      and cannot ever bear
                      to lose sight of her.

                      Silence knows and feels
                      all the spirits of its children–
                      words, though few in here,
                      or even in centuries can feel
                      their meaning, as a drop feels
                      ocean, a spark– fire, a breath–
                      wind, a grain– mountain, can you
                      feel the heartbeat of ages?

                      The ages of those hearts in 1776:

                      James Monroe, 18
                      Aaron Burr, 20
                      John Marshall, 20
                      Alexander Hamilton, 21
                      James Madison, 25
                      Benjamin Rush, 30
                      John Jay, 30
                      Thomas Jefferson, 33
                      Thomas Paine, 39

                      Shadows will never go
                      where lights have been,
                      no one can parcel out air,
                      or water, or fire, or earth
                      in pieces, they are elements
                      of freedom, and freedom
                      is all or nothing.


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