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First Line: Our wars are ended - foreign battles cease
Last Line: "still ""mistress of herself though china fall!"
Subject(s): China; Great Britain - Foreign Relations; Peace


OUR wars are ended -- foreign battles cease, --
Great Britain owns an universal peace:
And Queen Victoria triumphs over all,
Still "Mistress of herself though China fall!"





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