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 POLITICS.

OLD and iron are good

To buy iron and gold;

All earth's fleece and food

For their like are sold.

Hinted Merlin wise,

Proved Napoleon great,

Nor kind nor coinage buys

Aught above its rate.

Fear, Craft, and Avarice

Cannot rear a State.

Out of dust to build

What is more than dust,—

Walls Amphion piled