Vulgar words in André (Page 1)
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Oh, may no party-spirit blast his views, Or turn to ill the meanings of the Muse: She sings of wrongs long past, Men as they were, To instruct, without reproach, the Men that are; Then judge the Story by the genius shewn, And praise, or damn, it, for its worth alone.
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He sav'd thy life, yet strove to damn thy country; Doom'd millions to the haughty Briton's yoke; The best, and foremost in the cause of virtue, To death, by sword, by prison, or the halter: His sacrifice now stands the only bar Between the wanton cruelties of war, And our much-suffering soldiers: yet, when weigh'd With gratitude, for that he sav'd _thy_ life, These things prove gossamer, and balance air:-- Perversion monstrous of man's moral sense!