Of their contending against power in vain;
Suffering from tyranny of law long borne;
And life’s best spirits in contentions worn.
Happy in this, th’ oppressors soon will die, 550}
Each with the vex’d and suffering man to lie— }
And thus consoled exclaim, ‘And is not sorrow dry?’ }
But vice offended: when he met with those
Who could a deed of violence propose,
And cry, “Should they what we desire possess? }
Should they deprive us, and their laws oppress?” }