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<p>Come forth ye murdering conquerors – answer now<lb/> | |||
''This | How are ye better than that tyrant old<lb/> | ||
Who joy'd while <add>black &</add> burning ruins roll'd<lb/> | |||
O'er his death – & freedom & slaves? <del>And ye</del> <add>Ye <del>raptured</del> too</add> can see<lb/> | |||
This excellent world in flames – if mid the cries<lb/> | |||
Of widows & of orphans agonies<lb/> | |||
Ye hear the hellish shouts of "victory"!<lb/> | |||
Yes! ye would buy a Victor's worthless wreath<lb/> | |||
With tears & <del><unclear>tortures</unclear></del> <add>torments</add> – desolation – death!!<lb/> | |||
– If tortured with this savage thirst of life<lb/> | |||
This appetite of evil: – go & spread<lb/> | |||
Persons & pestilence – Rule o'er heaps of dead –<lb/> | |||
But sheaths war's fierce & lacerating knife<lb/> | |||
To hypocrites! – if but one drop of gore<lb/> | |||
Shed by some <add>wretched</add> outcast stain the floor.</p> | |||
<p><del>The scaffold</del> Ye send your warrant forth – that wretch must die<lb/> | |||
But had he pour'd <del>forth</del> <add>out</add> rivulets of blood<lb/> | |||
And waded to a Kingdom thro' the flood<lb/> | |||
He might have shared your own impurity!</p> | |||
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Come forth ye murdering conquerors – answer now
How are ye better than that tyrant old
Who joy'd while black & burning ruins roll'd
O'er his death – & freedom & slaves? And ye Ye raptured too can see
This excellent world in flames – if mid the cries
Of widows & of orphans agonies
Ye hear the hellish shouts of "victory"!
Yes! ye would buy a Victor's worthless wreath
With tears & tortures torments – desolation – death!!
– If tortured with this savage thirst of life
This appetite of evil: – go & spread
Persons & pestilence – Rule o'er heaps of dead –
But sheaths war's fierce & lacerating knife
To hypocrites! – if but one drop of gore
Shed by some wretched outcast stain the floor.
The scaffold Ye send your warrant forth – that wretch must die
But had he pour'd forth out rivulets of blood
And waded to a Kingdom thro' the flood
He might have shared your own impurity!
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