England in 1819

• ''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 leechlike to their fainting country cling''
• ''Till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow.''
• ''A people starved and stabbed in th' untilled field;''
• ''An army, whom 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.''