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"title": "The Dragon with Many Heads",
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"published_date": "January 17, 2015",
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"An envoy of the Porte Sublime, As history says, once on a time, Before th’ imperial German court Did rather boastfully report, The troops commanded by his master’s firman, As being a stronger army than the German: To which replied a Dutch attendant, “Our prince has more than one dependant Who keeps an army at his own expense.” The Turk, a man of sense, Rejoin’d, “I am aware What power your emperor’s servants share. It brings to mind a tale both strange and true, A thing which once, myself, I chanced to view. I saw come darting through a hedge, Which fortified a rocky ledge, A hydra’s hundred heads; and in a trice My blood was turning into ice. But less the harm than terror,— The body came no nearer; Nor could, unless it had been sunder’d, To parts at least a hundred. While musing deeply on this sight, Another dragon came to light, Whose single head avails To lead a hundred tails: And, seized with juster fright, I saw him pass the hedge,— Head, body, tails,—a wedge Of living and resistless powers.— The other was your emperor’s force; this ours.”"
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