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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,