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Greece and the world are Rome's: her stars prevail;
But our complexion shifts not with the gale.
When ONE against a NATION plays his life,
He bears from hosts the glory of the strife:
Until the hero's godlike race be run
I shall be loyal to the setting sun.

— John Nichol Hannibal (1873)

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