Retaining Walls

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    [T]he dignity of parliament it seems can brook no opposition to it’s power. Strange that a set of men who have made sale of their virtue to the minister should yet talk of retaining dignity!
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    before its great shadow joined
    the walls and roof and seemed
    to uphold the hall like a beam.
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