With useless indignation—sigh, and frown,
But have not hearts to throw the gauntlet down.
If but a doubt hung o’er the grounds of fray,
Or trivial rapine stopped the world’s highway;
Were this some common strife of States embroiled;—
Britannia on the spoiler and the spoiled
Might calmly look, and, asking time to breathe,
Still honourably wear her olive wreath
But this is Darkness combating with Light:
Earth’s adverse Principles for empire fight: