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ON THE REPORTED EXPULSION OF AHMED RIZA BY THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT
When, from supreme disaster, France uprose,
Shook her great wings and faced the world anew,
Who, if not we, rejoiced at heart to view
Her proud resilience after mightiest woes?
When 'neath the anarch's knife we saw the close
Of Carnot's day, amid her weepings who
Wept if not we, for the just man and true
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And now again we mourn, but not with her,
Nay, not with her, though for her!—mourn to see
A tyrant, Hell's most perfect minister,
A man-fiend, sun him in her countenance;
And Freedom, whose impassioned name was France,
Lie soiled and desecrate by France the Free.
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