Trusted and honored, lifted over all,—
So honored and so trusted, didst thou fall!
Against the people—who gave thee the power—
Thou hast misused it in an evil hour!
Against the city where thou owest all all—
Thy city, man, within whose guarding wall
Lie all our life’s young glories—ay, the whole!
The home and cradle of the human soul!
Against thy city, beautiful and strong,
Thou, with the power it gave, hast done this wrong!”