Chapter 66 No.66

Britons, Guard your Own

[Published in The Examiner, January 31, 1852. Verses 1 (considerably altered), 7, 8 and 10, are reprinted in Life, vol. I, p. 344.]

Rise, Britons, rise, if manhood be not dead;

The world's last tempest darkens overhead;

The Pope has bless'd him;

The Church caress'd him;

He triumphs; maybe, we shall stand al

            
            

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