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Bulwarks Of Empire

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"The Book of Odes", by L. Cranmer-Byng, [1908],

p. 47

"Bulwarks Of Empire\"

Good men are bulwarks; while the multitudes

Are walls that ring the land; great states are screens;

Each family a buttress; the pursuit

Of righteousness secures repose; like towers

Of strong defence the royal kinsmen stand

Immune from peril. May they still remain

Nor leave the king, a lonely citadel

Abandoned to his enemies.

Give heed

Unto the wrath of Heaven! nor presume

To idle; but revere the Heavenly moods,

Ephemeral though they seem. Be not of those

That roam at random. Heaven understands

And doth companion all the ways we go,

And seeth all things clearly
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