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SPIRIT OF THE YEARS
The Tipstaff he
Of the Will—the Many-masked, my good friend Death.— The statesman*s feeble form you may perceive Now hustled into the Invisible, And the unfinished game of Dynasties Left to proceed without him !
SPIRIT OF THE PITIES
Here, then, ends
My hope for Europe's reason-wrought repose / He was the friend of peace—did his great best To shed her balms upon humanity; And now hes gone / No substitute remains.
SPIRIT IRONIC
Ay ; the remainder of the episode is frankly farcical. Negotiations are again affected; but finally you discern Lauderdale applying for passports; and the English Parliament declares to the nation that peace with France cannot be made.
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The smouldering dudgeon of the Prussian king, meanwhile, upon the horizons rim afar
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Bursts into running flame, that all his signs of friendliness were met by moves for war.
Attend and hear, for hear ye faintly may, his manifesto made at Erfurt town,
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