But these between a silver streamlet
glides,
And scarce a name distinguisheth
the brook,
Though rival kingdoms press its
verdant sides.
Here leans the idle shepherd on
his crook,
And vacant on the rippling waves
doth look,
That peaceful still ’twixt
bitterest foemen flow:
For proud each peasant as the noblest
duke:
Well doth the Spanish hind the difference
know
’Twixt him and Lusian slave, the lowest of the
low.
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