Delegate your power, you leagued mortals must.

The hazard you must stand.

And though unlike King Bello of Dominora, your great chieftain, sovereign-kings! may not declare war of himself; nevertheless, has he done a still more imperial thing:--gone to war without declaring intentions.

You yourselves were precipitated upon a neighboring nation, ere you knew your spears were in your hands.
"But, as in stars you have written it on the welkin, sovereign-kings! you are a great and glorious people.

And verily, yours is the best and happiest land under the sun.