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The Age of George III |
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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,
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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.
P.B. Shelley, Poetical Works (O.U.P., 1919)
See also the Masque of Anarchy
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12 January, 2016
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