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other tongue . Then follow inscriptions , and all sorts o occasional verses , in great numbers , and a few dramatic trifles , for the greater part variations introduced in larger works , to which they more properly belong . Here too is the * Helena / an interlude to Faust , of which hereafter . The volume concludes with Zahme Xenien . If they are less valuable and remarkable than the old original Xenien , of which we have already spoken , but which are absorbed into the other epigrams , and remain undistinguished ; it lies in their nature to be so . The wild beast , in his rvative forest , is a thousand times more admirable , at least , than the same animal tamed for domestic use .
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( Air — ' Scots , wha hae . ' )
Now ' s the day , and now's the hour . Freedom is our nation ' dower , Put we forth a nation ' s power , Struggling to be free ! Raise your front the foe to daunt ! Bide no more the snare , the taunt !—Peal to highest heaven the chaunt , — ' Law and Liberty 1 '
Gather like the muttering storm ! Wake your thunders for Reform \ Bear not , like the trodden worm , Scorn and mockery ! Waking from their guilty trance , Shrink the foes as storms advance Scathed beneath a nation ' s glance , — Where ' s their bravery ?
Waves on waves compose the main ;—Mountains rise by grain on grain ;—Men an empire ' s might sustain Knit in unity ! Who shall check the ocean tide ?—Who o ' erthrow the mountain ' s pride ?—Who a nation ' s strength deride , Spurning slavery ?
Hearts in mutual faith secure , Hands from spoil and treachery pure , Tongues that meaner oaths abjure , — These shall make us free ! Bend the knee , and bare the brow ! God , our guide , will hear us now ! Peal \ q highest heaven the vow , — + Law and Liberty ] H . M ,
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Reform Song . 371
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REFORM SONG .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1832, page 371, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1814/page/11/
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