Ferment them into spirit; give them fire

To fight the cause, the black opprobrious cause,

Foul core of all!—corruption at our hearts.

What wreck of empire has the stream of time

Swept, with her vices, from the mountain height

Of grandeur, deified by half mankind,

To dark oblivion's melancholy lake,

Or flagrant infamy's eternal brand!

Those names, at which surrounding nations shook,

Those names ador'd, a nuisance! or forgot!