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Then Force, and Fraud's barbarian will
 Rose o'er the nobler mind's decay,
And sank on tower and templed hill
 The twilight shades, that closed her day.

This golden moral Eld unrolls,
 O proud Republic! to thine eyes;
Bids thee love most thy noblest souls,
 For Freedom sinks, when Honor dies!