And look more brazen than before!

Friends, while poor nameless wretches pine

In dungeon, or in dungeon-mine,

Whom cold and hunger led astray,

To filch a loaf upon their way;

Friends, freemen, tell me, is it right,

That those foul fiends who love the night;

Whose grov’ling souls for mammon made

Incessant ply them thieving trade,

And on a large scale rob the State,