What hands have built, my friend, hands can destroy.
[Pointing to the mountains.]
That home of freedom God hath built for us.
[A drum is heard. People enter bearing a cap upon a pole, followed by a crier. Women and children thronging tumultuously after them.]
1ST W.
What means the drum? Give heed!
MASON.
Why, here's a mumming!
And look, the cap—what can they mean by that?
CRIER.
In the Emperor's name, give ear!