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Oscar Wilde - Quantum Mutata
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There was a time in Europe long ago
      When no man died for freedom anywhere,
      But England`s lion leaping from its lair
Laid hands on the oppressor! it was so
While England could a great Republic show.
      Witness the men of Piedmont, chiefest care
      Of Cromwell, when with impotent despair
The Pontiff in his painted portico
  Trembled before our stern ambassadors.
      How comes it then that from such high estate              

     We have thus fallen, save that Luxury
     With barren merchandise piles up the gate
     Where nobler thoughts and deeds should enter by:
     Else might we still be Milton`s heritors.
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