O peddling merchant-justice, go,

Exacter rules than yours we know;

Resentment’s rule, and that high law

Of whoso best the sword can draw.

Ah well, and yet—dong, dong, dong.

Go on, my friends, as now you do;

Lawyers are villains, soldiers too;

And nothing’s new and nothing’s true.

Dong, there is no God; dong.

I had a dream, from eve to light