...men who hold its many blessings dear, Wise, upright, valiant ; not a servile band, Who are to judge of danger which they fear, And honour which they do not understand. A PROPHECY. FEBRUARY 1807 HIGH deeds, O Germans, are to come from you ! Thus in your books the record...

...Be Men who hold its many blessings dear, Wise, upright, valiant; not a venal Band, Who are to judge of danger which they fear, And honour which they do not understand. (26.10-14) The final line, with its unresolved ambivalence poised on a razor-thin edge, exactly mirrors...

...men who hold its many blessings dear, Wise, upright, valiant; not a servile band, Who are to judge of danger which they fear, And honour which they do not understand. Song at the Feast of Brougham Castle upon the Restoration of Lord Clifford, the Shepherd, to the Estates...