Yea, yet is she pre-eminent, a nation + 

Of men heroic⁠—but the time would fail + 

If I should now essay the consecration + 

To lyre-strings and to song’s soft-rippling gale + 

Of all that tale, + 

Lest men’s ears should be overfilled the while + 

And envy vex us. Let the task yet lying + 

Before me speed on wings of poesy flying, + 

Thy due, boy, youngest glory of thine isle. + 