Shrouding their treason in the gelid ooze;
Our stingless serpents twine in gentle play,
And harmless tygers crop the flow'ry spray;
The recreant lion smooths his savage eye,
While the dire spoiler stalks unheeded by.
Fly to your sep'rate realms, ye chiefs of worth,
And call the vengeful pow'rs of Afric forth;
Summon Disease, with all her ghastly brood,
To greet these traffickers in human blood,
Call forth the terrors of the fervid skies;