"America took me into her bosom when there was no longer a country worthy of the name, but in my heart I am German - German in my soul."

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I could have clasped the red walls to my bosom as a garment of eternal peace. "Death," I said, "any death but that of the pit!" Fool! might I have not known that into the pit it was the object of the burning iron to urge me?

— Edgar Allan Poe