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Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2)

CHAPTER LVII
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Delegate your power, you leagued mortals must.

The hazard you must stand.

And though unlike King Bello of Dominora, your great chieftain, sovereign-kings! may not declare war of himself; nevertheless, has he done a still more imperial thing:--gone to war without declaring intentions.

You yourselves were precipitated upon a neighboring nation, ere you knew your spears were in your hands.
"But, as in stars you have written it on the welkin, sovereign-kings! you are a great and glorious people.

And verily, yours is the best and happiest land under the sun.


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