LV.

Just now there was no peril of temptation;

He loved the infant orphan he had saved,

As patriots (now and then) may love a nation;

His pride, too, felt that she was not enslaved

Owing to him;—as also her salvation

Through his means and the Church's might be paved.

But one thing's odd, which here must be inserted,

The little Turk refused to be converted.

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