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A MEDLEY.

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The glittering axe was broken in their arms,
Their arms were shatter'd to the shoulder blade,

'Our enemies have fall'n, but this shalt grow
A night of Summer from the heat, a breadth
Of Autumn, dropping fruits of power; and roll'd
With music in the Æonian breeze of Time,
The tops shall strike from star to star, the fangs
Shall move the stony bases of the world.

'And now, O maids, behold our sanctuary
Is violate, our laws broken: fear we not
To break them more in their behoof, whose arms
Champion'd our cause and won it with a day
Blanch'd in our annals, and perpetual feast,
When dames and heroines of the golden year
Shall strip a hundred hollows bare of Spring,
To rain an April of ovation round
Their statues borne aloft, the three: but come,
We will be liberal, since our rights are won.

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