Against no matter whose the liberty

And life, so long as self-conceit should crow

And clap the wing, while justice sheathed her claw,—

That what had been the glory of the world

When thereby came the world's good, grew its plague

Now that the champion-armour, donned to dare

The dragon once, was clattered up and down

Highway and by-path of the world at peace

Merely to mask marauding, or for sake

O' the shine and rattle that apprized the fields