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CANTO IV.] Better be whelmed beneath the waves, and shun,

Even in Destruction's depth, her foreign foes,

From whom Submission wrings an infamous repose.

XIV.

In youth She was all glory,—a new Tyre,—

Her very by-word sprung from Victory,

The "Planter of the Lion," which through fire

And blood she bore o'er subject Earth and Sea;