be able to arouse your astonishment. They read and understand

Greater to-day, nor greater soon to be,

And therefore kings were slain,

And pristine majesty of golden thrones

And haughty sceptres lay o'erturned in dust;

And crowns, so splendid on the sovereign heads,

Soon bloody under the proletarian feet,

Groaned for their glories gone- for erst o'er-much

Dreaded, thereafter with more greedy zest