The wild Albanian kirtled to his knee,

With shawl-girt head and ornamented gun,

And gold-embroidered garments, fair to see;

The crimson-scarféd men of Macedon;

The Delhi with his cap of terror on,

And crooked glaive—the lively, supple Greek

And swarthy Nubia's mutilated son;

The bearded Turk that rarely deigns to speak,

Master of all around, too potent to be meek,