O reckless, roystering bard, that in a breath

Did'st find the way to flout thy fathers' flag!

Is't well, unheeding what thy Reason saith,

To seem to triumph in thy country's death?

IV.

If none will speak for us, if none will say

How far thy muse has wrong'd us in its thought,

'Tis I will do it; I will say thee nay,

And hurl thee back the ravings of thy lay.

V.