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)