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Didst thou never sojourn there ? 40 Oh, yes, thou didst — but fall'n is Rome, The pilgrim weeps her silent doom, As at midnight, murmuring low, Along the mouldering portico, He hears the desolate wind career, While the rank ivy whispers near. Ill-fated Gaul ! ambitious grasp Bids thee again in slavery gasp ; Again the dungeon walls resound The hopeless shriek, the groan profound. 50 But, lo, in yonder happy skies, Helvetia's airy mountains rise. And, oh, on her tall cliffs reclined, Gay fancy, ...whispering to the wind, As the wild herdsman's call is heard, Tells me, that she, o'er all preferr'd In every clime, in every zone, Is Liberty's divinest throne. Yet, whence that sigh ? O goddess, say. Has the tyrant's thirsty sway 60 Dared profane the sacred seat, Thy long high-favour'd, best retreat ? It has ! it has ! away, away, To where the green isles woo the day, Where thou art still supreme, and where Thy prcans fill the floating air. / HAVE A WISH loi I HAVE A WISH I HAVE a wish, and near my heart That wish lies buried ; To keep it there's a foolish part, For, oh !
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