LINES WRITTEN ON THE IMPRISONMENT BY THE PRUSSIAN GOVERNMENT OF MR. F. G. WORTH, A BRITISH SUBJECT. [Civis Romanus Sum.] " No ons shall wrong an Englishman, " ' Sum civis Anglicauus' " Shall be as safo a talisman " As ■ Civis sum Romanus,' ■■''In the palmiest days of Rome, when nono " Durst outrage cv'n her humblest son." Such words by Palmerston were Bpoken, While the pleased Commons loudly choored. Bufc lo ! Tho talisman is broken, And England's name no moro is fearod. Who, then, bas dared so bold a thing ? The Prussians old and pious King ! Immured in his prison dreary, Worth, a Briton, for weeks has lain ; Who, victim of his tyranny, Invokes his country's aid in vain. The charm " Romanus civis sum" For him, alas ! provos all a hum. a. m. c
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Wellington Independent, Volume XXVI, Issue 3199, 15 May 1871, Page 3
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