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 * Triumphant o'er them all,
 * See crowns and sceptres fall

Before the arms of iron-soldered legions;
 * As Capitolian Rome
 * Across the salt sea foam

Orders her Cæsars to remotest regions: From silver Spain and Albion's clouded seas To the fair shrines and marble mines of Greece.


 * Pallas unmatched in war,
 * To her triumphal car

Rome chains fallen despots and discrownèd queens
 * With many a rampant beast,
 * Birds from the gorgeous East,

And wool-haired Nubians torn from tropic scenes; There huge barbarians from Druidic woods Tower ominous o'er the humming multitudes;


 * For still untamed and free
 * In loathed captivity,

Their spirits bend not to the conqueror's yoke,