Their insects them: the lever finds its fulcrum

On what it then o’erthrows; the homely spade

In labour’s hand unscrupulously seeks

Its first momentum on the very clod

Which next will be upturned. It seems a law.

And am not I, though I but ill recall

My happier age, a kidnapped child of Heaven,

Whom these uncircumcised Philistines

Have by foul play shorn, blinded, maimed, and kept

For what more glorious than to make them sport?