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This Garibaldi now, the Italian boys Go mad to hear him--take to dying--take To passion for "the pure and high";--God's sake! It's monstrous, horrible! One sees quite clear Society--our charge--must shake with fear, And shriek for help, and call on us to act When there's a hero, taken in the fact. If Light shines in the dark, there's guilt in that! What's viler than a lantern to a bat?