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Songs of the Army of the Night

Note 87d — III. “AUSTRALIA: victoria—new south wales—queensland.”

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The picturesque Italian gentlemen who struggled so heroically for Italian Nationalism represent to-day a tyranny deeper and more dark than that of the Austrian foreigners, the tyranny of caste. The certainty of popularity was the bait held out by the greasy respectability of the London Times, and poetical vanity swallowed it, making Mr Swinburne also among the panders in his denunciation of Irish Nationalism.

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