Beheld his banner flouting thy Madrid[280]!

Austria! which saw thy twice-ta'en capital[281]

Twice spared to be the traitress of his fall!

Ye race of Frederic!—Frederics but in name

And falsehood—heirs to all except his fame:

Who, crushed at Jena, crouched at Berlin[282], fell

First, and but rose to follow! Ye who dwell

Where Kosciusko dwelt, remembering yet

The unpaid amount of Catherine's bloody debt[283]!160

Poland! o'er which the avenging Angel past,