> Stone walls do not a prison make,
> Nor iron bars a cage:
> Minds innocent and quiet take
> That for an hermitage.
> If I have freedom in my love,
> And in my soul am free,
> Angels alone, that soar above,
> Enjoy such liberty.

-- Richard Lovelace, To Althea, from Prison

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Althea,_from_Prison

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