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CANTO IV.] Such as Columbia saw arise when she

Sprung forth a Pallas, armed and undefiled?

Or must such minds be nourished in the wild,

Deep in the unpruned forest, 'midst the roar

Of cataracts, where nursing Nature smiled

On infant Washington? Has Earth no more

Such seeds within her breast, or Europe no such shore?

XCVII.

But France got drunk, with blood to vomit crime;

And fatal have her Saturnalia been

To Freedom's cause, in every age and clime;

Because the deadly days which we have seen,

And vile Ambition, that built up between

Man and his hopes an adamantine wall,