The cause is nowhere found in rhyme.


XXXV

Written on hearing of the outbreak of the Polish Insurrection.

Sonnet

Blow ye the trumpet, gather from afar

The hosts to battle: be not bought and sold.

Arise, brave Poles, the boldest of the bold;

Break through your iron shackles—fling them far.

O for those days of Piast, ere the Czar