Rather than do this thing, better for the fast-anchored isle that it should sink beneath the sea, carrying down its cathedrals, its castles, its happy homes, its fields of glory, Runnymede, Westminster Hall, and the tomb of Shakespeare.
Sumner expresses a dramatic sentiment that it would be better for Britain to sink than to engage in immoral actions.
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