Beyond the blue wave, at his country’s expense!—
Yet so bad, so disgracefully bad, seems to me
The state of the law in this ‘Land of the free’”—
(Speak these words in a manner most zealous and fervid)—
That there’s no law for those who most richly deserve it!
Yes, Sir, ’tis a fact not less true than astounding—
A fact—to the wise with instruction abounding,
That those who the face of the country destroy,
And hurl o’er the best scenes of Nature alloy—
Who Earth’s brightest portions cut through at a dash—