Rapacious relief!

Avuncular author of anguish,

We damn you with deepest disdain!

We linger, we long, and we languish

For freedom again.”

I smiled on the speakers unheeding,

I grinned at their garrulous games—

When the breeze blew them, splendidly speeding,

Right into the Thames.

They scattered, as seed that is sown, or