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#1-3, oil on canvas, 1836, by Thomas Cole
#4, circa 2002, artist unknown
http://pasleybrothers.com/jefferson/course_of_empire.htm
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There is the moral of all human tales;
'This but the same reheasal of the past
First Freedom, and then Glory: when that fails
Wealth, vice, corruption
- Byron
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