BETTY STOOD AT THE WINDOW IN THE FULL LIGHT OF THE STREET-LAMP

That's the shout, the shout we shall utter

When, with rifles and spades,

We stand, with the old Red Flag aflutter

On the barricades!

—FRANCIS ADAMS.

Thou orb of many orbs!

Thou seething principle! Thou well-kept, latent germ!

Thou center!

Around the idea of thee the strange sad war revolving,

With all its angry and vehement play of causes,

(With yet unknown results to come, for thrice a thousand years)....

—WHITMAN.

While three men hold together,

The kingdoms are less by three.

—SWINBURNE.

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