From fearless Warsaw’s radiant walls,

(For, crested with the Sons of Liberty,

Then stood they fearless and secure,)

No less than was that mount in Israel once,

Where Angels rode in fiery guard

Around the Prophet[30]. Ever such defence

Be made for freedom, and usurpers

Abated and confounded in their pride,

As Frederic now! He, when he turn’d,

Thus gave mad utterance to his spleeny mood:—