Whose mail is first in slaughter gored!

Thou, subtler than the serpent, DAN,[10]

Prince of the arrow and the sword.

Woe to the Syrian charioteer

When rings the rushing of thy spear!

"Crush'd to the earth by war and woe,

GAD,[11] shall the cup of bondage drain,

Till bold revenge shall give the blow

That pays the long arrear of pain.