Act 2 — AS BY THE SHORE AT BREAK OF DAY.
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As by the shore, at break of day, A vanquished chief expiring lay, Upon the sands, with broken sword, He traced his farewell to the free; And there the last unfinished word He dying wrote, was "Liberty!"
At night a sea-bird shrieked the knell Of him who thus for freedom fell: The words he wrote, ere evening came, Were covered by the sounding sea;— So pass away the cause and name Of him who dies for liberty!
THOMAS MOORE.
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