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48 Say, will you here fully Commission me to use my own discretion? I'll gain for you the Generals' words of honor, Even as you wish.

Gain me their signatures! How you come by them, that is your concern.

And if I bring it to you, black on white, That all the leaders who are present here Give themselves up to you, without condition; Say, will you then—then will you shew yourself In earnest, and with some decisive action Make trial of your luck?

The signatures! Gain me the signatures.

Seize, seize the hour Ere it slips from you. Seldom comes the moment In life, which is indeed sublime and weighty. To make a great decision possible, O! many things, all transient and all rapid, Must meet at once: and, haply, they thus met May by that confluence be enforc'd to pause Time long enough for wisdom, though too short, Far, far too short a time for doubt and scruple! This is that moment. See, our army chieftains, Our best, our noblest, are assembled round you, Their