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

CHAPTER LX
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And oft you kings do snatch the aloe-flower, whose slow blossoming mankind watches for a hundred years .-- Say on, my lord." "All this I know; and, therefore, rest content.

My children's children will be kings; though, haply, called by other titles.

Mardi grows fastidious in names: we royalties will humor it.

The steers would burst their yokes, but have not hands.

The whole herd rears and plunges, but soon will bow again: the old, old way!" "Yet, in Porpheero, strong scepters have been wrested from anointed hands.


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