We’ll work and watch the brightening west,
And leave to God and Heaven, the rest.
There were others who accepted the inevitable gracefully, but defiantly.
Weep, if thou wilt, with proud sad mien,
Thy blasted hopes—thy peace undone;
Yet brave, live on—nor seek to shun
Thy fate, like Egypt’s conquered queen.
Though forced a captive’s place to fill,
In the triumphal train—yet there,
Superbly, like Zenobia, wear