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Alas! Forbear! For ever be eschewed

Those wars of tyranny and servitude!

I'm bored with them: for they, as soon as done,

Straight recommence; and no one calls to mind

That he in sooth is only played upon

By Asmodeus, who still lurks behind.

They battle, so 'tis said, for freedom's rights—

More clearly seen, 'tis slave 'gainst slave who fights.