Shall theft and murder braver deeds excite
Than honest scorn of shame and heavenly love of right?
S. 2.
Turn the bright historic page!
Still in glory’s tented field,
Albion’s arms, for many an age,
Have taught proud Gallia’s bands to yield.
Are not WE the sons of those
Whose steel-clad sires pursued the insulting foes,
E’en to the centre of their wide domain,