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Ay, down to the dust with them, slaves as they are! From this hour let the blood in their dastardly veins, That shrunk at the first touch of Liberty's war, Be wasted for tyrants, or stagnate in chains.
Ay, down to the dust with them, slaves as they are! From this hour let the blood in their dastardly veins, That shrunk at the first touch of Liberty's war, Be wasted for tyrants, or stagnate in chains.
Approximate author period: c. 1815 AD · industrial
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- Thomas Moore
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- Approximate author period: c. 1815 AD · industrial
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)
On the Entry of the Austrians into Naples, 1821.
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