Close-leagued with an invincible ally,

Which honest counsels never fail to fix

In favour of an unabandon'd land;

A land—that starts at such a land as this,

A parliament, so principled, will sink

All ancient schools of empire in disgrace,

And Britain's glory, rising from the dead,

Will fill the world, loud fame's superior song.

Britain!—that word pronounc'd is an alarm;

It warms the blood, though frozen in our veins;