Indignation!

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("Toi qu'aimais Juvnal.") [Nox (PRELUDE) ix., Jersey, November, 1852.] Thou who loved Juvenal, and filed His style so sharp to scar imperial brows, And lent the lustre lightening The gloom in Dante's murky verse that flows - Muse Indignation! haste, and help My building up before this roseate realm, And its so fruitless victories, Whence transient shame Right's prophets overwhelm, So many pillories, deserved! That eyes to come will pry without avail, Upon the wood impenetrant, And spy no glimmer of its tarnished tale.

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