Crouches, and lays his mighty paw
Into her lap!—an emblem meet
Of England’s Queen, and English law:
Queen, that hath made her Islands free!
Law, that holds out its shield to me!
“Star of the North! upon that shield
Thou shinest,—Oh, for ever shine!
The negro, from the cotton field
Shall, then, beneath its orb recline,
And feed the Lion, couched before it,