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?