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Quite firmly did you stand, and unafraid / Before that haughty bar that sought to hold / You fettered, lest you strengthen and grow bold / To break a clearing through that fetid glade / Which their benighted prejudice had made; / They taunted you with darkling hints of gold, / Preferring you were bought as you had sold, / They weaved their webs like spiders in the shade.
But as a giant in the falling night / Of storm, you forged afore with ruthless tread, / To offer up your heart's blood in the fight, / Forgetting self, unmindful, unafraid, / Nor pausing until thrice acclaimed the right / To rally in the tents of those you led.