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We will not let thee be, for thou art ours. / We thank thee still, though thou forget these things, / For that hour's sake when thou didst wake all powers / With a great cry that God was sick of kings.
Leave thee there grovelling at their rusted greaves, / These hulking cowards on a painted stage, / Who, with imperial pomp and laurel leaves, / Show their Marengo -- one man in a cage.