XXXIII.
“And Man was told to love where forced to hate,
And saw his fairest fields partitioned forth
To Nobles—so miscalled—by robbery great,
Whose phantom title was ancestral worth,
Their own sole merit accident of birth!
Heart-bitterness and worming discontent
Made all the land—the loveliest upon earth—
In sullen, fierce indifference bide till rent
The Thunder-clouds, supine—and some on Vengeance bent.