From birth to serve her will, her yoke to bear.

LXXIII

So Man, held hand and foot, a slave behold

Between the soldier-king and priest of old;

By force and fraud bound fast as by two chains—

How long, O Man, how long shall they thee hold?

LXXIV

“How long?” again I cried,—but Silence kept

Her finger on the lips of Hope: still slept,