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SONNET II
THE EDUCATION BILL
Once more in serried ranks the warriors close!
On one side men whose passion is to be
For ever fetterless, for ever free;
Upon the other, Freedom's bitterest foes
Who, while ye sleep and rulers nod and doze
Would bear across the blue protesting sea
Rome's weapons of ancestral devilry
To brand and mar the stainless form that rose
Triumphant once, and hurled Rome's myriads down,
And won from heaven sublime Truth's starry crown,
And saved for ever the human race from hell
More dark and grim and terrible and dire
Than heart can dream. Heed no pale priestly liar,
Lest the world shrink to one black prison-cell.
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