"Where are they now who wrought this fiendish wrong?

We hate the actors, and have hated long.

And where are they, the victims? Always here;

We feel their glory, and we hold it dear!

Oh yes, 'tis ours! that glory still is ours,

And, lo! how breaks it on these festive hours;

Each heart is warm, each eye lit up with pride,

'Tis sanction'd in our loves and sanctified!

Far o'er the earth—the Christianised—where'er