Wight Ryder

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    She that was ever fair, and never proud,
    Had tongue at will, and yet was never loud
    ...
    She that could think, and ne’er disclose her mind,
    See suitors following, and not look behind.
    She was a wight, if ever such wight were—
    To suckle fools and chronicle small beer.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    The despot’s heel is on thy shore,
    Maryland!
    His torch is at thy temple door,
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    That flecked the streets of Baltimore,
    And be the battle-queen of yore,
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    —James Ryder Randall (1839–1908)