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V.

By Oppression's woes and pains!
By your sons in servile chains,
We will drain our dearest veins,
But they shall, they shall be free!

VI.

Lay the proud usurpers low!
Tyrants fall in every foe!
Liberty's in every blow!
Forward! let us do, or die!

THE TWO LAMPS:

A FABLE.

ADDRESSED TO THE LADIES.

The design of which is, to exemplify the difference between that which is the result of education and sentiment and more corporeal proportion.

Ere yet hypocrisy and art
Have wrapp'd in treble brass the heart,—
The natural intercourse supprest
Between the countenance and breast;
Each motion of the mind we trace
By her interpreter, the face.