VII.

Hark!—a signal gun—another! On the deck a man appears Stately as the Ocean-shaker— “Ye Athenians, lend your ears! Thomas Wyse am I, a herald Come to parley with the Greek; Palmerston hath sent me hither, In his awful name I speak— Ye have done a deed of folly—one that ye shall sorely rue! Wherefore did ye lay a finger on the carpets of the Jew?