I have a brother—a young high-soul’d boy,

And beautiful as a sculptor’s dream, with brow

That wears amidst its dark rich curls, the stamp

Of inborn nobleness. In truth, he is

A glorious creature! But his doom is seal’d

With theirs of whom ye spoke; and I have knelt—

Ay, scorn me not! ’twas for his life—I knelt

E’en at the viceroy’s feet, and he put on

That heartless laugh of cold malignity

We know so well, and spurn’d me. But the stain