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You have ruined and disgraced us,
And successfully effaced us
From the proud commanding station
Where the zeal and penetration
Of our ancestors had placed us.
Go! we are a ruined nation;
But before our dissolution
We pronounce your condemnation—
Sappers of our constitution,
Slayers of our reputation!"
And successfully effaced us
From the proud commanding station
Where the zeal and penetration
Of our ancestors had placed us.
Go! we are a ruined nation;
But before our dissolution
We pronounce your condemnation—
Sappers of our constitution,
Slayers of our reputation!"
But the nation—mark the moral,
For its value is untold—
During each successive quarrel
Grew and prospered as of old.
For its value is untold—
During each successive quarrel
Grew and prospered as of old.
