Note 98 — 1816
Reading edition
1845.
. . . . . . . torrents roar! But how can He be faithless to the past, Whose soul, intolerant of base decline, Saw in thy virtue a celestial sign, That bade him hope, and to his hope cleave fast! The nations strove with puissance;—at length Wide Europe heaved, impatient to be cast, With all her living strength, With all her armed powers, 1816. Upon the offensive shores.