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The Fall of Lucifer

Prime, Benjamin Young (1733-1791)

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Then shall this great REPUBLIC sit secure,
While haughty tyrants from their thrones are hurl'd,
And to the utmost date of time endure,
Not mistress but the GLORY of the world.

A title Britain, in her days of insolence and boasted omnipotence, assumed to herself.