She bade majestic History unroll
Broad views of public welfare to his soul,
Until he looked on clannish feuds and foes
With scorn, as on the wars of kites and crows;
Whilst doubts assailed him, o’er and o’er again,
If men were made for kings or kings for men.
At last, to Norman’s horror and dismay,
He flat denied the Stuarts’ right to sway.
No blow-pipe ever whitened furnace fire,
Quick as these words lit up his father’s ire;