Cuộc hành hương của chàng hiệp sĩ Childe Harolds - Khúc thứ ba (19) Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage - Canto III (19)

Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage - Canto III (19)

Fit retribution! Gaul may champ the bit
And foam in fetters; -- but is Earth more free?
Did nations combat to make One submit;
Or league to teach all kings true sovereignty?
What! shall reviving Thraldom again be
The patch’d-up idol of enlighten’d days?
Shall we, who struck the Lion down, shall we
Pay the Wolf homage? proffering lowly gaze
And servile knees to thrones? No; prove before ye praise!