These still respond with promptitude to-day,

At challenge of—what unacknowledged powers

O' the air, what uncommissioned meteors, warmth

By law, and light by rule should supersede?

For see this priest, this Caponsacchi, stung

At the first summons,—"Help for honor's sake,

Play the man, pity the oppressed!"—no pause,

How does he lay about him in the midst,

Strike any foe, right wrong at any risk,

All blindness, bravery and obedience!—blind?