Here you will find thePoemJohn Bohun Martinof poet Sydney Thompson Dobell
Keeping his word, the promised Roman kept Enough of worded breath to live till now. Our Regulus was free of plighted vow Or tacit debt: skies fell, seas leapt, storms swept; Death yawned: with a mere step he might have stept To life. But the House-master would know how To do the master's honours; and did know, And did them to the hour of rest, and slept The last of all his house. Oh, thou heart's-core Of Truth, how will the nations sentence thee? Hark! as loud Europe cries 'Could man do more?' Great England lifts her head from her distress, And answers 'But could Englishman do less?' Ah England! goddess of the years to be!
