Crushed, dwarfed, poisoned and devoured,
By the arts and manufactures;
Voices drown’d, subdued, smothered amid the din.
Tell of the march of industry’s deafening roar affecting a nation’s reasoning and sealing its store of finest instincts.
Tell of designing kings of trade
Who, on a free man’s soil!
So multiplied their wealth
That all their fellow-beings
Were their willing slave—
Slaves living lives in imputrid bodies—