When emancipated bondsmen bow'd to the image of JACK CADE.
There's room enough where Royal Charles sits stiffly in the Square,
To rear a double effigy—Why not of BURKE and HARE?
Though not in freedom's cause they died, remember'd let it be,
That science has its martyrdom, as well as liberty.
A monument to Walter Scott!—A monument forsooth!
What has that bigot done for us, for freedom, or for truth?
He always back'd the Cavalier against the Puritan,
And sneer'd at just fraternity, and the equal rights of man.
What good to us have ever done his Legends of Montrose,