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INSTANS TYRANNUS.

1.
Or the million or two, more or less,
I rule and possess,
One man, for some cause undefined,
Was least to my mind.

2.
I struck him, he grovelled of course—
For, what was his force?
I pinned him to earth with my weight
And persistence of hate—