And if we do but watch the hour,
There never yet was human power
Which could evade, if unforgiven,
The patient search and vigil long
Of him who treasures up a wrong.
Mazeppa. Stanza 10.
They never fail who die
In a great cause.
Marino Faliero. Act ii. Sc. 2.
Whose game was empires and whose stakes were thrones,