What then!—shall Candour these good men proscribe?
No! ere we join the loud-accusing throng,
Prove,—not the facts,—but, that they thought them wrong.
“Why hang O’Quigley?—he, misguided man,
In sober thought his country’s weal might plan:
And, while his deep-wrought Treason sapp’d the throne,
Might act from taste in morals, all his own.”
Peace to such Reasoners! let them have their way;
Shut their dull eyes against the blaze of day;
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