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And thus:—“Omnipo’tent Sire! whose awful reign perforce obeyeth all thy pow’er hath made; if these, who seek a new half-world to gain, whose deeds of brav’ery hast with love survey’d, thou wouldst not guerdon with a shame and stain, that erst were favoured through the years that fade listen no longer thou, sole Judge direct, to glozing reasons all we Gods suspect: