We will not think of themes like these!

It made Anacreon’s song divine:

He served—but served Polycrates:

A tyrant; but our masters then

Were still, at least, our countrymen.

The tyrant of the Chersonese

Was freedom’s best and bravest friend;

That tyrant was Miltiades!

Oh that the present hour would lend

Another despot of the kind!