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Dante Gabriel Rossetti - On A Handful Of French Money
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These coins that jostle on my hand do own 
No single image: each name here and date 
Denoting in man`s consciousness and state 
New change. In some, the face is clearly known,— 
In others marred. The badge of that old throne 
Of Kings is on the obverse; or this sign 
Which says, “I France am all—lo, I am mine!” 
Or else the Eagle that dared soar alone. 
Even as these coins, so are these lives and years 
Mixed and bewildered; yet hath each of them 
No less its part in what is come to be 
For France. Empire, Republic, Monarchy,— 
Each clamours or keeps silence in her name, 
And lives within the pulse that now is hers.
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