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Page 134 - of the dying, and the lament of the bereaved ? He " Sits amid the gaudy herd Of mute barbarians bending to his nod, And bears aloft his gold-invested front, And says within himself, ' I am a king, And wherefore should the clamorous voice of woe Intrude upon mine ear?'
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| Title | The Song of Albion: A Poem Commemorative of the Crisis. Lines On the Fall of Warsaw and Other Poems Online access with subscription: JISC Historical Texts |
| Author | Henry Sewell Stokes |
| Publisher | J. Cochrane, 1831 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | Jan 9, 2007 |
| Length | 171 pages |
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