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Then from us

Commence the novel custom! A whole race

In imitation soon will consecrate

Its monarch's noble action into law.

Nor let me only for our liberty—

Let me, a stranger, for all strangers fight.

If I should fall, my doom be also theirs;

But if kind fortune crown me with success,

Let none e'er tread this shore, and fail to meet

The beaming eye of sympathy and love,

Or unconsoled depart!