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We willed it not. We have not lived in hate, / Loving too well the shires of England thrown / From sea to sea to covet your estate, / Or wish one flight of fortune from your throne.
We had grown proud because the nations stood / Hoping together against the calumny / That, tortured of its old barbarian blood, / Barbarian still the heart of man should be.