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" O, who shall from this dungeon raise
A soul enslaved so many ways?
With bolts of bones, that fettered stands
In feet; and manacled in hands.
Here blinded with an eye: and there
Deaf with the drumming of an ear;
A soul hung up, as ’twere, in chains
Of nerves, and arteries, and veins;
Tortured, besides each other part,
In a vain head and double heart? "

Andrew Marvell , The Complete Poems


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Andrew Marvell quote : O, who shall from this dungeon raise <br />A soul enslaved so many ways? <br />With bolts of bones, that fettered stands <br />In feet; and manacled in hands. <br />Here blinded with an eye: and there <br />Deaf with the drumming of an ear; <br />A soul hung up, as ’twere, in chains <br />Of nerves, and arteries, and veins; <br />Tortured, besides each other part, <br />In a vain head and double heart?