WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE
SANS peur et sans reproche!—our lion-heart
To whom we turn when other hopes betray,
When tyrant-might puts forth her power to slay
Young, struggling Freedom, with her poisoned dart,
And Britain hath forgot the nobler part
She played, as Freedom's champion,—that proud day
She led a world to break one despot's sway,—
And from her old traditions stands apart.