Are foster’d by the people? Have they lost

The sense of their misfortunes? Is the name

Of Gracchus in their hearts—reveal the truth—

Already number’d with forgotten things?

Ful. A breeze, a passing breeze, now here, now there,

Borne on light pinion—such the people’s love!

Yet have they claims on pardon, for their faults

Are of their miseries; and their feebleness

Is to their woes proportion’d. Haply still

The secret sigh of their full hearts is thine.