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 Hell for Spain, and heaven for England,—God to God, and man to man,— Met confronted, light with darkness, life with death: since time began, Never earth nor sea beheld so great a stake before them set, Save when Athens hurled back Asia from the lists wherein they met; Never since the sands of ages through the glass of history ran Saw the sun in heaven a lordlier day than this that lights us yet.

For the light that abides upon England, the glory that rests on her godlike name,