Spouting away, writing a score of sonnets
Unto Dame Liberty’s eyebrow; then Mobile,
Clapped in strange clothes, and bearding barricades,
Zealous against old friends in sudden quarrel,
Taking a sight at death and devastation
E’en in the cannon’s mouth; then Cavaignac,
In power despotic and a state of siege,
With frown severe, and beard of Algiers cut,
O’er-riding Law with a soldier’s insolence—
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shows