Chapter_949

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But oh, thou grand legitimate Alexander!

Her son’s son, let not this last phrase offend

Thine ear, if it should reach⁠—and now rhymes wander

Almost as far as Petersburgh, and lend

A dreadful impulse to each loud meander

Of murmuring Liberty’s wide waves, which blend

Their roar even with the Baltic’s⁠—so you be

Your father’s son, ’tis quite enough for me.