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RIGHTS AND DUTIES.
LONG of their rights alone have we to menEnough discoursed; yea, overlong about
To stir their souls to discontent and doubt
Have gone, till all our world is as a fen,
With exhalations foul and meteors vain
Of wish and will fulfilled, a rabble-rout
Of sensual dreams wherein no grass will sprout,
No flowers will blow, fruit ripen neither grain.
Them of their duties, surely, to bespeak
High time it is, of duty,—moon and sun
Which holdeth in their course of day and night,
Which is the star of life for strong and weak,—
And that high prophet's speech, who said, “No right
“Is but ariseth from a duty done.”
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