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An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king;

Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who

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Through public scorn,

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Rulers who neither see,

know,

But leech-like to their fainting country cling,

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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;

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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 Phan

tom may

Burst, to illumine our tempestuous day.

LOVE'S PHILOSOPHY

(1819)

The fountains mingle with the river, And the rivers with the ocean; The winds of heaven mix for ever

With a sweet emotion;
Nothing in the world is single;
All things by a law divine
In one spirit meet and mingle:
Why not I with thine?

See the mountains kiss high heaven,
And the waves clasp one another;
No sister-flower would be forgiven
If it disdained its brother;
And the sunlight clasps the earth,
And the moonbeams kiss the sea:
What are all these kissings worth
If thou kiss not me?

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Of the dying year, to which this closing A heavy weight of hours has chained and night

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One too like thee: tameless, and swift, and proud.

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