![Indignation Of A High-Minded Spaniard, By: William Wordsworth](https://i0.wp.com/poetrycatalog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Indignation-Of-A-High-Minded-Spaniard-By-William-Wordsworth.png?resize=750%2C420&ssl=1)
We can endure that He should waste our lands,
Despoil our temples, and by sword and flame
Return us to the dust from which we came;
Such food a Tyrant’s appetite demands:
And we can brook the thought that by his hands
Spain may be overpowered, and he possess,
For his delight, a solemn wilderness
Where all the brave lie dead. But, when of bands
Which he will break for us he dares to speak,
Of benefits, and of a future day
When our enlightened minds shall bless his sway;
‘Then’, the strained heart of fortitude proves weak;
Our groans, our blushes, our pale cheeks declare
That he has power to inflict what we lack strength to bear.