The Poetry of Real Life A New Edition, Much Enlarged and Improved. By Henry Ellison |
TO THE CHARTISTS, UNDER FROST. |
The Poetry of Real Life | ||
TO THE CHARTISTS, UNDER FROST.
Deluded Men, who still from want of light,Darkly pursue dark ends, or even good,
Turning them thereby to similitude
Of worse, in their own better nature's spite—
Why do ye yourselves violate the right,
Whose violation in your persons would
Exasperate ye? giving latitude
Of evil, unto those who take delight
Therein, by your example—opening thus
A door for other ills to creep thereby
Into the state—would ye your wrongs discuss
Calmly, and knit your minds to unity,
Ye would find that your Word unanimous
Was mightier than your Hand to rectify!
The Poetry of Real Life | ||