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[pg<br />

226]<br />

That when with wondering eyes our<br />

martial bands<br />

Behold our deeds transcending our<br />

commands,<br />

Such, they may cry, deserve the<br />

sovereign state,<br />

Whom those that envy dare not imitate!<br />

Could all our care elude the gloomy<br />

grave,<br />

Which claims no less the fearful<br />

and the brave,<br />

For lust <strong>of</strong> fame I should not vainly<br />

dare<br />

In fighting fields, nor urge thy soul<br />

to war.<br />

But since, alas! ignoble age must<br />

come,<br />

Disease, and death's inexorable<br />

doom<br />

<strong>The</strong> life, which others pay, let us<br />

bestow,

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