Of Europe’s cup of miseries,
And brutal Tories, worse than these—
Britons, with rude, relentless hand:
All these made up the cruel band
Which came to spoil and vex the land.
I felt my heart in anger leap—
“No!” cried my spirit from its deep,
“I will not here ignobly creep.
“I have a strong arm for the fray;
I have a rifle sure to slay;