Though pig-headed Obstruction's force died hard;
Denied his due, official bitters cast,
Into the cup wrung slowly from their guard.
But not until the country, wiser far
Than those who ruled it, with an angry cry,
Seeing its soldiers 'gainst it waging war,
At last said resolutely, “Stand you by!
“And let him in to do what he has said,
And you do not, and will not let him do.”