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I. VOLUME I


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“LINES WRITTEN ON 29 MAY—THE ANNIVERSARY OF CHARLES'S RESTORATION—ON HEARING THE BELLS RINGING.

Infatuate Britons, while you still proclaim
His memory, your direst, foulest shame?
Nor patriots revere?
Oh! while I hear each traitorous lying bell,
'Tis gallant Sydney's, Russel's, Vane's sad knell,
That pains my wounded ear.”