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"Think <strong>of</strong> thy father, and this face<br />

behold!<br />

See him in me, as helpless and as<br />

old!<br />

Though not so wretched: there he<br />

yields to me,<br />

<strong>The</strong> first <strong>of</strong> men in sovereign<br />

misery!<br />

Thus forced to kneel, thus grovelling<br />

to embrace<br />

<strong>The</strong> scourge and ruin <strong>of</strong> my realm<br />

and race;<br />

Suppliant my children's murderer to<br />

implore,<br />

And kiss those hands yet reeking<br />

with their gore!"<br />

<strong>The</strong>se words s<strong>of</strong>t pity in the chief<br />

inspire,<br />

Touch'd with the dear remembrance<br />

<strong>of</strong> his sire.<br />

<strong>The</strong>n with his hand (as prostrate<br />

still he lay)

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