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"Sage Franklin next arose in cheerful mien,

And smil'd, unruffled, o'er the solemn scene;

High on his locks of age a wreath was brac'd,

Palm of all arts that e'er a mortal grac'd;

Beneath him lay the sceptre kings had borne,

And crowns and laurels from their temples torn."