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XII.

Be not as tyrant or slave,

England: be not as these,
Thou that wert other than they,
Stretch out thine hand but to save;
Put forth thy strength, and release;
Lest there arise, if thou slay,
Thy shame, as a ghost from the grave.

 

November 20, 1867.