Hampden; Southey's early drama of Wat Tyler; Codrus' crown;
Stout Archbishop Blackburn's cutlass; Joan of Arc's plain hodden gown;
Galileo's early notion of the Sun's diurnal motion;
Becket's slily feigned devotion to his Royal Master's sway;
Lope's, Calderon's, Cervantes' swords, exchanged for pens, and Dante's
(When as force could not supplant his foes, he took a surer way);
Brutus' simulated weakness; strewn about the mountain, lay.
On these relics as we trample, fired by such a good example,
Some of our men leave an ample share upon the flinty strand;
Pio Nono's contribution is his taste for Revolution;