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Amidst the din my voice shall yet be heard.
Let Blight and Hunger's winged hordes and Waste
Collect their tithes;
But haste!

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My claim preferr'd, all they have left I take.
And with a rake,
Stirring what Fear conceals,
Want follows at my wheels
Through the red slush and mud
To slake
Her thirst, in blood.