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You have ruined and disgraced us,And successfully effaced usFrom the proud commanding stationWhere the zeal and penetrationOf our ancestors had placed us.Go! we are a ruined nation;But before our dissolutionWe 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 quarrelGrew and prospered as of old.
