Reviving, heavier chastisement deserve
Than ever forced unpitied hearts to bleed.
VARIANTS:
[171] 1832.
1827.
Your Thrones, from duty, Princes! fear to swerve;
FOOTNOTES:
[BY] From the position of this sonnet in the edition of 1827, as well as from manifest internal evidence, it refers, like the two previous ones, to the battle of Waterloo. Illustrations of the first six lines of the sonnet are too numerous in mediæval history to require detailed allusion.—Ed.