Their heritage away—who clasp the bands

On their own limbs, and crawl and blindly go

Like timorous fawns to their own overthrow.

Shall we thus fall? Is it so difficult

To think that we are free, yet be not so—

To shatter down by one brief hour of guilt

The holy fane of Freedom that our fathers built.


AGATHÈ.—A NECROMAUNT.

IN THREE CHIMERAS.