MURDERED OCTOBER 6, 1849, BY THE AUSTRIAN.
AMONG the foremost of Earth’s freeborn men
Hungarians stil bemoan thee, Leiningen!
Even England, fallen from her high estate,
Beholds, tho’ dimly, the sublimely great.
She hugged too fondly her distorted sons,
Castlereas, Cannings, Russells, Palmerstons:
No more asleep or drunk, she marks afar
Deserted Guyon o’er the Raglan star,
And blesses Kossuth’s Demosthenic tongue,
Dividing true from false, and right from wrong.
O could thy spirit fly across the sea,
And those who boast thy blood resemble thee.