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Requital to evil possession 's seen,
Varied records will this elucidate,
See it in usurpation's thorny state,
All that with blood-acquired gold has been ;

Nations when dazzled by the conqu'ror's sheen
Enfeebled, lost the stamina that gave
Vict'ry o'er inadequacy ; between
The ris'n billows depression's space will lave.

The spoil that marks ingloriousness, worn
When time has render'd its memory old
Will, as the attestation does behold,
Be oft ruthlessly from its possessor torn,
Like him who deck'd with Pallas' belt, betray'd
To direful rifling, and the life-sundering blade.