1. What constitutes[304] a State?

Not high raised battlements[305] or labored mound,[306]

Thick wall or moated[307] gate;

Nor cities proud, with spires and turrets[308] crowned;

Not bays and broad-armed ports,

Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies[309] ride;

Not starred and spangled courts,

Where low-browed baseness[310] wafts perfume to pride.

2. No; men, high-minded[311] men,

With powers as far above dull brutes endued[312],