The secular arm o' the body politic,

Should, for mere wrongs' love and injustice' sake,

Side with, aid and abet in cruelty

This broken beggarly noble,—bribed perhaps

By his watered wine and mouldy crust of bread—

Rather than that sweet tremulous flower-like wife

Who kissed their hands and curled about their feet

Looking the irresistible loveliness

In tears that takes man captive, turns" ... enough!

Do you blast your predecessors? What forbids