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To giant strength in unshorn manhood grown,
He haunts the wilderness, he dwells alone.
A tigress with her whelps to seize him sprung,
He tears the mother, and he tames the young
In the drear cavern of their native rock ;
Thither wild slaves and fell banditti flock ;
He heads their hordes ; they burst, like toriid rains.
In death and devastation o'er the plains ;
Stronger arnl holder grows his ruffian band.
Prouder his heart, more terrible his hand.
He spreads his banner ; crowding from afar.
Innumerable armies rush to war ;
Resistless as the pillar'd whirlwinds fly
O'er Lybian sands, revolving to the sky.
In fire and wrath through every realm they run,
Where the noon-shadow shrinks beneath the sun ;
Till at the Conqueror's feet from sea to sea,
A hundred nations bow the servile knee.
And throned in nature's unreveal'd domains,
The Jenghis Khan of Africa he reigns.
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