Looks out, and takes our homage as his due!
See on his future subjects how he smiles,
Nor meanly flatters, nor with craft beguiles;
But with an open face, as on his throne,
Assures our birthrights, and assumes his own
Born in broad day-light, that the ungrateful rout
May find no room for a remaining doubt;[302]
Truth, which itself is light, does darkness shun,
And the true eaglet safely dares the sun.
Fain[303] would the fiends have made a dubious birth,