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Against his bosom beats his quivering<br />

heart;<br />

Terror and death in his wild eyeballs<br />

stare;<br />

With chattering teeth he stands, and<br />

stiffening hair,<br />

And looks a bloodless image <strong>of</strong><br />

despair!<br />

Not so the brave—still dauntless,<br />

still the same,<br />

Unchanged his colour, and unmoved<br />

his frame:<br />

Composed his thought, determined<br />

is his eye,<br />

And fix'd his soul, to conquer or to<br />

die:<br />

If aught disturb the tenour <strong>of</strong> his<br />

breast,<br />

'Tis but the wish to strike before the<br />

rest.<br />

"In such assays thy blameless worth<br />

is known,

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