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Britain

a poem; in three books [by Robert Colvill]
  
  

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Quid moror? an mea Pygmalion dum mœni
Destruat aut captam ducat Gætulus Iarbas
Virg: Æn:
Shall I, inglorious, wait the hostile stroke
Of cruel spoilers, and a Roman yoke?
Shall Britain basely see her pow'r expire,
And Gauls triumphant sack these walls with fire?