But bantlings of that motley crew,

The blight of Europe and its dross,

Once borne the Atlantic tide across,

By hostile winds and angry waves,

Vile scum, to shame true freemen’s graves.

Whate’er the scourge or rope had spared,

What vice engendered, folly reared;

Whatever monsters spring to life,

Where foul disease and filth are rife;

Where men of wild, disordered brain