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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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