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That heart, with friendship, love, and feeling fraught;That world of knowledge, and that depth of thought;That Truth, Taste, Sense, Simplicity, and Worth. . . . . . .Oh! and are all these hid in that small heap of Earth?
Weep, Albion, weep! thou wilt not weep alone;The Globe's four quarters shall repeat thy moan:For where's the clime, which hath not felt the careOf Him, whose liberal love all Nature seemed to share?India[1], whose cause He laboured to uphold,Whose rights he pleaded, and whose wrongs He told,Shall feel her breast with fond remembrance swell,And mourn his loss, who mourned her woes so well.
- ↑ Hastings' Trial.