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And gives them leave to wear their sapphire crowns
And wield their little tridents. [But this Isle],
The greatest and the best of all the main,
He [quarters] to his blue-haired deities;
And all this tract that fronts the falling sun 30
[A noble Peer] of mickle trust and power
Has in his charge, with tempered awe to guide
An [old and haughty nation], proud in arms:
Where [his fair offspring], nursed in princely lore,