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Nor
does he now ask of you an opportunity of living happily, but only one of dying honourably. He
is anxious now, not to enjoy his own home, but not to be deprived of his family tomb. He now
begs and prays for nothing else at your hands, beyond your abstaining from depriving him of
his legitimate funeral rites, and of the privilege of dying at home. He entreats you to allow
him who has never feared any danger of death in his country's cause, in that country to die.
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