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What are monuments of bravery,
Where no public virtues bloom?
What avail in lands of slavery
Trophied temples, arch, and tomb?

2 Pageants! Let the world revere us
For our people's rights and laws,
And the breasts of 3 civic heroes
Bared in Freedom's holy cause.

Yours are Hampden's, Russell's glory,
Sidney's matchless shade is yours-
Martyrs in heroic story,

Worth a hundred Agincourts!

We're the sons of sires that baffled
5 Crowned and mitred tyranny;
They defied the field and scaffold
For their birthrights-so will we!
Campbell.

1 Undegenerate, not having become worse than one's fathers. 2 pageant, a grand display, a show. 3 civic, belonging to a city. Hampden's, etc. John Hampden, Lord William Russell, Algernon Sidney. 5 crowned and mitred tyranny, the tyranny of those wearing crowns and mitres, that is of kings and bishops.

1399. Richard II. compelled to give up the throne. Accession

of Henry IV.

1400. Death of Chaucer.

1401. Law passed for the burning of heretics.

1403. Rebellion of the Percies. Battle of Shrewsbury.

1413. Accession of Henry V.

1415. Siege of Harfleur. Battle of Agincourt.

1420. Treaty of Troyes.