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... , Reason's prophet , SOCRATES . Him in school of honest labour Nature reared with pious pains , With no blood from boasted fathers Flowing in his sober veins . As a workman works , he stoutly Plied his task 22 A SONG OF HEROES .
... , Reason's prophet , SOCRATES . Him in school of honest labour Nature reared with pious pains , With no blood from boasted fathers Flowing in his sober veins . As a workman works , he stoutly Plied his task 22 A SONG OF HEROES .
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... blood of heroes Ran like rivers in their joy . In his father's camp at Pydna Up he grew in ruddy grace , Lithe of limb and tight of sinew , And with eager forward face . First to run the race with racers , First to mount the restive ...
... blood of heroes Ran like rivers in their joy . In his father's camp at Pydna Up he grew in ruddy grace , Lithe of limb and tight of sinew , And with eager forward face . First to run the race with racers , First to mount the restive ...
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... with brother , But with rage of tigerhood , Plunging , tearing on to power Through seas of bribery and blood . But not all were vile . Some wildly Fought and foamed like fretted cattle ; Some , with lofty ken far - viewed , And CESAR . 41.
... with brother , But with rage of tigerhood , Plunging , tearing on to power Through seas of bribery and blood . But not all were vile . Some wildly Fought and foamed like fretted cattle ; Some , with lofty ken far - viewed , And CESAR . 41.
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... thing now shall CESAR do , Through those veins corrupt and fevered Healthy pulses to renew ? He will be their needful master , By firm law and not by blood—- D Consul , CESAR , Imperator- Strangling faction in the bud CÆSAR . 49.
... thing now shall CESAR do , Through those veins corrupt and fevered Healthy pulses to renew ? He will be their needful master , By firm law and not by blood—- D Consul , CESAR , Imperator- Strangling faction in the bud CÆSAR . 49.
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... blood in heathen triumph O'er the hated Christian name . Laws were loveless ; lies were blushless ; And the lust with feeding grew , To glut the greed of wolf - nursed Rome With blood of Christian and of Jew . PAUL was marked for doom ...
... blood in heathen triumph O'er the hated Christian name . Laws were loveless ; lies were blushless ; And the lust with feeding grew , To glut the greed of wolf - nursed Rome With blood of Christian and of Jew . PAUL was marked for doom ...
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