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O Child of Nations, giant-limbed,   Who stand'st among the nations now Unheeded, unadored, unhymned,   With unanointed brow,— How long the ignoble sloth, how long   The trust in greatness not thine own?

From In Divers Tones by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir