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fall the day when England's realm shall see

The sunset of dominion! Her increase

Abolishes the man-dividing seas,

And frames the brotherhood on earth to be!

She, in free peoples planting sovereignty,

Orbs half the civil world in British peace;

And though time dispossess her, and she cease,

Rome-like she greatens in man's memory.

Oh, many a crown shall sink in war's turmoil,

And many a new republic light the sky,

Fleets sweep the ocean, nations till the soil,

Genius be born and generations die,

Orient and Occident together toil,

Ere such a mighty work man rears on high!