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HATEVER penman wrote or orator

Declaimed, I could not, for the soul of me,

Deem that the West had lost of liberty

All but the name, and feared the sounds of War:

Of them and theirs I was not ignorant, nor

Had failed to learn what impulse set them free

When alien kings held England's realm in fee,

And what, in conquering, they had battled for.