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II.

i.

Hell for Spain, and heaven for England,—God to God,

and man to man,—
Met confronted, light with darkness, life with death:
since time began,
Never earth nor sea beheld so great a stake before
them set,
Save when Athens hurled back Asia from the lists
wherein they met;
Never since the sands of ages through the glass of history
ran
Saw the sun in heaven a lordlier day than this that
lights us yet.

ii.

For the light that abides upon England, the glory that

rests on her godlike name,