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Hearken, O Mother, hearken to thy daughter! / Fain would I tell thee what men tell to me, / Saying that henceforth no more on any water / Shall I be first or great or loved or free,
But that these others -- so the tale is spoken -- / Who have not known thee all these centuries / By fire and sword shall yet turn England broken / Back from thy breast and beaten from thy seas,