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A MEDLEY.
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And eddied into suns, that wheeling castThe planets: then the monster, then the man;Tattoo'd or woaded, winter-clad in skins,Raw from the prime, and crushing down his mate;As yet we find in barbarous isles, and hereAmong the lowest.'
Thereupon she tookA bird's-eye-view of all the ungracious past;Glanced at the legendary AmazonAs emblematic of a nobler age;Appraised the Lycian custom, spoke of thoseThat lay at wine with Lar and Lucumo;Ran down the Persian, Grecian, Roman linesOf empire, and the woman's state in each,How far from just; till warming with her themeShe fulmined out her scorn of laws SaliqueAnd little-footed China, touch'd on MahometWith much contempt, and came to chivalry:When some respect, however slight, was paid
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