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We wait beneath the furnace-blast / The pangs of transformation, / Not painlessly doth God re-cast / And mould anew the nation. / Hot burns the fire / Where wrongs expire; / Nor spares the hand / That from the land / Uproots the ancient evil. / --Whittier.
On returning to Ledbury, Gabriel seized the opportunity of writing to his father, begging that, if possible, he might see him before he left the neighbourhood; and by the time he had found a messenger to despatch to Hereford, Massey had returned from reconnoitring the surrounding country. The Governor of Gloucester was in excellent spirits, for he had reason to believe that Prince Rupert, having learnt of his arrival at Ledbury, had halted in his march to join the King, and would probably return and give him battle.