Admire their patience through each sacrifice,
Till taught to feel the lesson of their pride,
The price of taxes and of homicide;
Admire their justice, which would fain deny
The debt of nations:—pray who made it high?[337]
XV.
Or turn to sail between those shifting rocks,
The new Symplegades[338]—the crushing Stocks,
Where Midas might again his wish behold660