Firm, unfaltering in this struggle.
Mere "Political Offence,"
All this murder, mashing, maiming?
'Tis a pitiful pretence,
Honour-blinding, wisdom-shaming.
Indiscriminate, ruthless raid!
Mad chance—medly of disaster!
Sophistry, the fiend's sworn aid,
Never better served its master
Than in calling such hell-birth