LXVII.

Alas! could she but fully, truly, know

How her great name is now throughout abhorred;

How eager all the Earth is for the blow

Which shall lay bare her bosom to the sword;

How all the nations deem her their worst foe,

That worse than worst of foes, the once adored

False friend, who held out Freedom to Mankind,

And now would chain them—to the very mind;—

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