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12.

THOUGHT OF A BRITON

ON THE

SUBJUGATION OF SWITZERLAND.

Two Voices are there; one is of the Sea,One of the Mountains; each a mighty Voice:In both from age to age Thou didst rejoice,They were thy chosen Music, Liberty!There came a Tyrant, and with holy glee.Thou fought'st against Him; but hast vainly striven;Thou from thy Alpine Holds at length art driven,Where not a torrent murmurs heard by thee.Of one deep bliss thine ear hath been bereft:Then cleave, O cleave to that which still is left!For, high-soul'd Maid, what sorrow would it beThat mountain Floods should thunder as before,And Ocean bellow from his rocky shore,And neither awful Voice be heard by thee!
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