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Rh Nor the long galling yoke of proud Liguria, Could cruh into ubjection. Still unquell'd They roe uperior, burtlng from their chains, And claim'd man's dearet birthright, : And long, thro' many a hard unequal trife Maintain'd the glorious conflict; long withtood With ingle arm, the whole collected force Of haughty Genoa, and ambitious Gaul. And hall withtand it, trut the faithful Mue! It is not in the force of mortal arm, Scarcely in fate, to bind the truggling oul That gall'd by wanton power, indignant wells Againt: oppreion; breathing great revenge, Careles of life, determin'd to be free. And av'ring heaven approves: for ee the Man, Born to exalt his own, and give mankind A glimpe of higher natures: jut, as great; The oul of council, and the nerve of war; Of