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Was there a human spirit in the steed, / That thus with his proud voice, ere night was gone, / He broke our linked rest? or do indeed / All living things a common nature own, / And thought erect an universal throne, / Where many shapes one tribute ever bear? / And Earth, their mutual mother, does she groan / To see her sons contend? and makes she bare / Her breast, that all in peace its drainless stores may share?