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StanleySBill: Late Renaissance/early Baroque tones with Mikołaj Sęp Szarzyński (c. 1550-c. 1581):
Peace - is happiness, but earth's condition
Is struggle. The stern Hetman of darkness
And the world's sweet vanities are tireless
As they persevere for our corruption.
(trans. B. Carpenter)
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Her Name Liberty
by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
I thought to do a deed of chivalry,
An act of worth, which haply in her sight
Who was my mistress should recorded be
And of the nations. And, when thus the fight
Faltered and men once bold with faces white
Turned this and that way in excuse to flee,
I only stood, and by the foeman's might
Was overborne and mangled cruelly.
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