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ENGLAND: AN ODE.

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Change darkens and lightens around her, alternate in
hope and in fear to be:
Hope knows not if fear speak truth, nor fear whether
hope be not blind as she:
But the sun is in heaven that beholds her immortal, and
girdled with life by the sea.

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