What unheroic pertness! what un-Christian spite!

Alas, our youth, so clever yet so small,

Thin dilletanti deep in nature's plan,

Who make the emphatic One, by whom is all,

An essence less concentred than a man!

Better wild Mahmoud's war-cry once again!

O fools, we want a manlike God and Godlike men!

Go, frightful omens. Yet once more I turn

To you that mould men's thoughts; I call on you

To make opinion warlike, lest we learn