At home a prison, and abroad a prey:

Her valiant Youth, her valiant Youth did kill,

And mutual blood did spill;

Usurpers then, and many a mushroom Peer

Within her palaces did domineer;

There did the vulture build his nest,

50There the owls and satyrs rest,

By Zim and Ohim all possest;

'Till England's Angel-Guardian, thou,

With pity and with anger mov'd