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We never saw you, like our sires, / For whom your face was Freedom's face, / Nor know what office-tapes and wires / With such strong cords may interlace; / We know not if the statesmen then / Were fashioned as the sort we see, / We know that not under your ken / Did England laugh at Liberty.
Yea, this one thing is known of you, / We know that not till you were dumb, / Not till your course was thundered through, / Did Mammon see his kingdom come.