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Son of a race, whose dusky visage shows / The heel of fortune, those who walk unfree / Though cradled in the hold of liberty, / Whose shackled spirit every gamut knows / Of Hate's cadenza, through whose warm blood flows / The royal ransom of love's dynasty, / Scion of these, he strides to meet his foes.
Erect, unbending, note his sable brow, / The rugged furrows where deep feelings plough, / The step of vigor and the noble air, / The subtle halo of his wintry hair, / Up from the furnace of the Earth's red sea / A man is fashioned for the years to be!