Worst of the bad—they taught him that the laws
Made wrong and right; there was no other cause;
That all religion was the trade of priests,
And men, when dead, must perish like the beasts;—
And he, so lively and so gay before—
Ah! spare a mother—I can tell no more.
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"Int'rest was made that they should not destroy
The comely form of my deluded boy—
But pardon came not; damp the place and deep