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Churchill defended, a poem

addressed to the minority [by Percival Stockdale]

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But thy great Love of England to behold,
See thee to save expiring Freedom bold,
The Works of Vice, and Villainy display,
And bare their Ugliness in open Day,
Numa turns downward an attentive Eye,
And Cato bends in Rapture from the Sky.