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SONNETS FROM 'AMERICA AND ENGLAND IN DANGER OF WAR: 5, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: First of mankind bid we our eagles pause
Last Line: Shall warm thy hearthstone from their million homes.
Subject(s): England; Justice; English


FIRST of mankind bid we our eagles pause
Before the pure tribunal of the mind,
Where swordless justice shall the sentence find,
And righteous reason arbitrate the cause!
First of mankind, whom yet no power o'erawes,
One kin let us confederate and bind;
Let the great instrument be made and signed,
The mould and pattern of earth's mightier laws!

Crown with this act the thousand years of thought,
O English Race, and wheresoever roams
Thy sea-flown brood, and bulwarked states has wrought
Far as the loneliest wave of ocean foams,
Thy children's love with veneration brought
Shall warm thy hearthstone from their million homes.





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