All worms and rottenness within!

A flickering, phosphorescent, ray,

That springs from bodies in decay,[n]

To warn the Nations to keep clear,

And straight through right to Freedom steer!

Good Heavens! it almost drives me mad,

To hear each simpering, yard-stick lad,

And every pettifogging ass,

With brain of lead and brow of brass,

Hiss thus; “We want a one-man rule,