Perhaps, in youth's enthusiastic heat
We may have been a little indiscreet,
When we, thus inexperienced and young,
Against oppression dared to raise the tongue.
Perhaps 'twere best to tarnish manhood's brow
With servile adulation, and to bow
With craven salaam and obeisance, down
In sycophantic homage to a crown.
What, though the diadem its blazon rears
Above a population's groans and tears!