And punishes the Pope for Cæsar’s crimes.[[312]]
Such is the liberal Justice which presides
In these our days, and modern patriots guides;—
Justice, whose blood-stain’d book one sole decree,
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One statute, fills—“the People shall be Free!”
Free! By what means?—by folly, madness, guilt,
By boundless rapines, blood in oceans spilt;
By confiscation, in whose sweeping toils
The poor man’s pittance with the rich man’s spoils,