The Study of Poetry • Paragraph 1730
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“Thou! if thou wast he, who at mid-watch came, By the starlight, naming a dubious name! And if, too heavy with sleep--too rash With fear--O thou, if that martyr-gash Fell on thee coming to take thine own, And we gave the Cross, when we owed the Throne--