Cistercians might crack their sides <br />With laughter, and exemption get, <br />At sight of heroes clasping brides, <br />And hearing--O the horn! the horn! <br />The horn of their obstructive debt! <br /> <br />But quit the stage, that note applies <br />For sermons cosmopolitan, <br />Hernani. Have we filched our prize, <br />Forgetting . . .? O the horn! the horn! <br />The horn of the Old Gentleman!<br /><br />George Meredith<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/hernani/
