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Excerpt from The Poetical Works of Ebenezer Elliott, Vol. 1 of 2 Glory to those who give it! who erect The bronze and marble, not where frothy tongue Or bloody hand points out no, but where God t-Ordains the humble to walk forth before 00 Co The humble, and mount higher than the high. CD Wisely, O Sheffield, wisely hast thou done To place thy Elliott on the plinth of fame; Wisely hast chosen for that solemn deed One like himself, born where no mothers love Wrapt purple round him, nor rang golden bell, Pendant from Libyan coral, in his ear, To catch a smile or calm a petulance; Nor tickled downy scalp with Belgic lace; But whom strong genius took from poverty, And said, Rise, mother, and behold thy child! She rose, and Pride rose with her but was mute. Three Elliotts there have been, three glorious men, Each in his generation. One was doom'd By despotism and prelacy to pine About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.