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.

“Here Greek and Roman find themselves
Alive along these crowded shelves;
And Shakespeare treads again his stage,
And Chaucer paints anew his age.”
—John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)