His confidence in war he means to wage,

God aiding and the rural populace.

No: rain and wind must rub the rags away

And let the lazy land untroubled snore.

Ah, in good truth? and did the drowsihead

So suit, so soothe the learned loving eye,

That you were minded to confer a crown,

(Does not the poppy boast such?)—call the land

By one slow hither-thither stretching, fast

Subsiding-into-slumber sort of name,