You have ruined and disgraced us,
And successfully effaced us
From the proud commanding station
Where the zeal and penetration
⁠Of our ancestors had placed us.
Go! we are a ruined nation,
⁠But, before our dissolution
We pronounce your condemnation—
⁠Sappers of our constitution,
Slayers of our reputation!"

But the nation—mark the moral,
⁠For its value is untold—
During each successive quarrel
⁠Grew and prospered as of old.