XXXV.

The hour of Fate comes on! and it is fraught

With this of Liberty, that now the need

Is past to veil the brow of anxious thought,

And clothe the heart, which still beneath must bleed,

With Hope’s fair-seeming drapery. We are freed

From tasks like these by misery: one alone

Is left the brave, and rest shall be thy meed,

Prince, watcher, wearied one! when thou hast shown

How brief the cloudy space which parts the grave and throne.