What stirs ye? Is it that this nation
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Spurn'd back the insolent dictation | Of Him before whose nod ye blench'd?
The clock of doom had struck as fated;
the poet, without a sound,
let fall his pistol on the ground.
The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
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