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Mount Rennie. (The Time-Spirit speaks.)

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"Poor lads! And you for others' wrongs and sins      Whose dead past greed and lust did never wince         To make your fathers, mothers, and now you      Miserable fiends in hell, must expiate, since         "We the more guilty, we the strong, the few,         Whose triumph thrusts you down into the stew,      Fear lest our victims rise and rend us, fear         This problem mad we will not listen to!      "Victims, with her your fellow-victim here,      Blind, deaf, dumb beasts, the hour shall yet appear         When men, when justicers resolute-terrible, you      Shall speak and all men tremble as they hear!"

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