Versos English John Hamilton Moore Haughtiness

English poem

Haughtiness

by (1738–1807)

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Make thy demands to those that own thy power! Know, I am still beyond thee. And tho' fortune Has stripp'd me of this train, this pomp of greatness, This outside of a king, yet still my soul, Fix'd high, and on herself alone dependant, Is ever free and royal; and, even now, As at the head of battle—does defy thee!