Others plunge in at once, and never heed

Whose turn they take, whose purpose they impede;

Resolved to shine, they hasten to begin,

Of ending thoughtless - and of these was Gwyn.

And thus he spake: -

“It grieves me to the soul,

To see how man submits to man’s control;

How overpower’d and shackled minds are led

In vulgar tracks, and to submission bred;

The coward never on himself relies,