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THE LAST CONSTANTINE.
........Thou strivest nobly,
When hearts of sterner stuff perhaps had sunk:
And o'er thy fall, if it be so decreed,
Good men will mourn, and brave men will shed tears.
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........Fame I look not for,
But to sustain, in Heaven's all seeing eye,
Before my fellow men, in mine own sight,
With graceful virtue and becoming pride,
The dignity and honour of a man,
Thus station'd as I am, I will do all
That man may do.
Miss Baillie's Constantine Palæologus.
