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Sonnet: England In 1819.

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An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king, -     Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow     Through public scorn, - mud from a muddy spring, -     Rulers who neither see, nor feel, nor know,     But leech-like to their fainting country cling,     Till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow, -     A people starved and stabbed in the untilled field, -     An army, which liberticide and prey     Makes as a two-edged sword to all who wield, -     Golden and sanguine laws which tempt and slay;     Religion Christless, Godless - a book sealed;     A Senate, - Time's worst statute, unrepealed, -     Are graves from which a glorious Phantom may     Burst, to illumine our tempestuous day.

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