The ruffian forth, as gives it forth the balm

Of nobler natures, the hussars appal

The maidens’ breasts with many a sinking qualm.

Hell gleams from forth their eyes; and burns each palm;

Distended wide their satyr nostrils scare!

Ye maids of England, blissful in your calm

Security, oh, long from you be far

Invasion’s horrors dire, the fiendishness of War!

IX.