And innocence lifts up thin, fettered hands

While guilt walks angel free. Where palsy shakes

The pen from the seer's hand, and crowing health

Bids fools to write; where Fame forgets to blush

At Flattery's board, and Honor, pendulous

'Twixt bribe and faith, dwindles inert and like

A withered finger shames the hand of state.

... Where Margarets can stripe their souls' pure white

With guileless blood. She, she that was a dove

To falcon turn and rend a fledgling's breast!