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Thus, when her standard civilising art
Plants on some barb'rous shore, to mountains bleak,
And craggy fastnesses his warrior sons
The angry Genius tif the waste withdraws;
There bids them,from the influence abhorr'd
Of           free, their sangj/< Their manners rude, and savage laws uphold ;
Till fate shall once more pour thlm from their caves,
Impatient e'er their long-lost plains again
To spread the veil of ignorance and night.