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Tyranny. (Melbourne.)

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[The Delegates speak.]      "'Tyranny'? Yes, that's it!         We are not afraid      To face the word that's fit         For what we've said!      "It's the tyranny of the Many,         That will not allow      There's the right to any         To seek wealth and power now      "At the expense of the Many.         Say, that one or this      Works 'over hours': then he         Drives us all to the abyss,      "Where, struggling together         One rises again      While the rest all together         Are stifled and slain.      "From this death-strife of brothers         Comes the tyranny of One.      That's your sort. But we others,         We prefer our own!"

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