Of Europe, the records of China will dissipate;
For as old Hoang Ti built the wall, strong and high,
To check the fierce Huns as it now checks the Tartars,
Not long after old Hannibal conquered at Cannæ,
And then wasted his time in his snug winter quarters;
And as if China's sons had not driven those Huns
Into Europe by many a subsequent battle, a
Longer respite, I ween, for old Rome there had been,
Nor Europe so early had bowed to an Attila.
It is clear that a stranger and far greater danger