...ection, will spring From ashes all reeking and sodden with blood? Could you brand us as villains and serfs, know ye not What fierce, sullen hatred, lurks under the scar? How loyal to Hapsburg is Venice , I wot; How dearly the Pole loves his father, the Czar! But 'twere well to remember, this land of the sun Is a nutrix leonum, and suckles a race Strong-armed, lion-hearted, and banded as one, W...