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Collot d'Herbois / Caesar is fall'n! The baneful tree of Java, / Whose death-distilling boughs dropt poisonous dew, / Is rooted from its base. This worse than Cromwell, / The austere, the self-denying Robespierre, / Even in this hall, where once with terror mute / We listen'd to the hypocrite's harangues, / Has heard his doom.