Esther Greenleaf

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“...if I perish, I perish.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Esther 4:16.

Queen Esther, as she gathers strength to go to the king on behalf of her people.

“On leaf of palm, on sedge-wrought roll;
On plastic clay and leathern scroll,
Man wrote his thoughts; the ages passed,
And lo! the Press was found at last!”
—John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)