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The Poetical Works of Thomas Chatterton

with an essay on the Rowley poems by the Rev. Walter W. Skeat and a memoir by Edward Bell

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XXI.

Chorus.
When Freedom, dressed in bloodstained vest,
To every knight her warsong sung,
Upon her head wild weeds were spread,
A gory weapon by her hung.
She dancèd on the heath,
She heard the voice of death.