While streams shall flow or grass shall spring.

Now, Copperheads, in you I trace

These marks of that accursed race;

The name of liberty you scorn,

Because you natural slaves are born:

Your love for despots you preserve,

Because you’re made express to serve:

You worship pomp, and glare, and kings,

Because you are not men—but things;

And wish for things in turn to do