Iberia Won; A poem descriptive of the Peninsular War / With impressions from recent visits to the battle-grounds, and copious historical and illustrative notes

by T. M. Hughes

Whose fathers jousted in Plantagenet fights?—

Have not all battled with the roaring Flood?

Noble is he who honours, Man, thy rights,

Sustains thy dignity, is truthful, good;

Kings have I known more base than bondsman e’er hath stood!

III.

Hath not the humblest hands, eyes, feeling, thought

Like your’s, strength, weakness, tears and laughter’s dower?

The bruted serf hath Poland’s serfdom wrought;