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 -! MR. COTTON
 * Oh, glory's neither here nor there;
 * but think of the enormous profits
 * we'd reap if Greece should free herself.

MONSIEUR BALLON
 * I saw myself a conqueror,
 * by lovely Grecian maids encircled.

TRUMPETERSTRALE
 * Grasped in my Swedish hands, I saw
 * the great, heroic spur-strap-buckles!

VON EBERKOPF
 * I my gigantic Fatherland's
 * culture saw spread o'er earth and sea-!

MR. COTTON
 * The worst's the loss in solid cash.
 * God dam! I scarce can keep from weeping!
 * I saw me owner of Olympus.
 * If to its fame the mountain answers,
 * there must be veins of copper in it,
 * that could be opened up again.
 * And furthermore, that stream Castalia,
 * which people talk so much about,
 * with fall on fall, at lowest reckoning,
 * must mean a thousand horse-power good-!

TRUMPETERSTRALE
 * Still I will go! My Swedish sword
 * is worth far more than Yankee gold!

MR. COTTON
 * Perhaps; but, jammed into t