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CAELICA: 90 by FULKE GREVILLE

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First Line: THE TURKISH GOVERNMENT ALLOWS NO LAW
Last Line: BUT NO BURNT ZONE IT IS WHERE PEOPLE LIVE.
The Turkish government allows no law,
Men's lives and states depend on his behest;
We think subjection there a servile awe,
Where nature finds both honor, wealth, and rest.

Our Christian freedom is, we have a law,
Which even the heathen think no power should wrest;
Yet proves it crooked as power lists to draw,
The rage or grace that lurks in princes' breasts.
Opinion bodies may to shadows give,
But no burnt zone it is where people live.



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