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Forward’ rang the voices then, and of the manymine was one.Let us hush this cry of ‘ Forward’ till ten thousand years have gone. Far among the vanish’d races, old Assyrian kingswould flayCaptives whom they caught in battle—iron-hearted victors they. Ages after, while in Asia, he that led the wildMoguls,Timur built his ghastly tower of eighty thousand human skulls, Then, and here in Edward’s time, an age of noblestEnglish names,Christian conquerors took and flung the conquer’d
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