Resenting injury as act of wrong,—
Man listed not this monitor’s still voice,
But gave his wanton wish the guilty force of choice.
V.
Dark looms the record of his earlier years,—
A troubled tale of infamy and tears;
For, of the ill by man primeval wrought,
Shows forth predominant with anguish fraught,
And long disaster to the ensuant race,
The direful course of degradation base,