Forbidding glory and success attend
The fatal field of crimes. Will they ne’er cease?
Will not the bitter expiation end
Sufficed of three eventful centuries?
We are not now those who on daring’s wing,
Before the world, the Atlantic’s depths disdain’d,
And from the silence found thee covering,
That fiercely tore thee, bleeding and enchain’d!
“No, ye are not the same. But my lament
Is not for this to cease: I could forget