And they are not thy offspring

Whose corpses in great heaps

Choke the Kip-Dorp Gate.

Oh! the thwarting of Anjou!

“No, these are no sons of thine

The people fling from the ramparts.

’Tis the High Highness of Anjou,

The passive libertine Anjou,

Living, France, on thy very blood,

And eager to drink ours;