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122:(the "Senate") is a relic. In addition, the civil rights of the Catholic minority are non-existent "Time's worst statute unrepealed". In a startling burst of optimism, the last two lines express the hope that a "glorious Phantom" may spring forth from this decay and "illumine our tempestuous day".
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57:Are graves from which a glorious Phantom may
39:Rulers who neither see, nor feel, nor know,
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