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VI.

How should one charge thee, how pray,

Save by the memories that were?
Not thy gold nor the strength of thy ships,
Nor the might of thine armies at bay.
Made thee, mother, most fair:
But a word from republican lips
Said in thy name in thy day.

VII.

Hast thou said it, and hast thou forgot?

Is thy praise in thine ears as a scoff?
Blood of men guiltless was shed,
Children, and souls without spot,
Shed, but in places far off:
Let slaughter no more be, said
Milton; and slaughter was not.