Henceforth such oligarchy as ourselves
Please to appoint you!"—then the horror-stung
Dreamers awake; they started up a-stare
At the half-helot captain and his crew
—Spartans, "men used to let their hair grow long,
To fast, be dirty, and just—Sokratize"—
Whose word was "Trample on Themistokles!"
So, as the way is with much misery,
The heads swam, hands refused their office, hearts
Sunk as they stood in stupor. "Wreck the Walls?