Comme l’aigle, planant sur les plus fiers sommets,
Fixe l’astre brûlant, et ne répond jamais
Aux cris du paon rempli de stupide insolence,
Le poète inspiré, dominant tous les fronts,
Dans son vol glorieux, dédaigne les affronts
Que lui jette parfois une sotte opulence.
Il dédaigne le faste outrageant du vantard,
Qui, rendu tout-puissant par l...
Ermine or blazonry, he knew them not,
Nor cloth of gold, for Duty was his Queen;
But this he knew,—a soul without a spot,
Judgment untarnished, and a conscience clean.
In peace, in war, a worker day and night,
Laborious chieftain! toiling at his lamp;
The children had the splendor of the fight,—
Home was his battle-field, his...
