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Burlesques

CHAPTER II
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Come, as of old, and rally round my eagles! You have been subject to fiddling prudence long enough.

Come, worship now at the shrine of Glory! You have been promised liberty, but you have had none.

I will endow you with the true, the real freedom.

When your ancestors burst over the Alps, were they not free?
Yes; free to conquer.

Let us imitate the example of those indomitable myriads; and, flinging a defiance to Europe, once more trample over her; march in triumph into her prostrate capitals, and bring her kings with her treasures at our feet.


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