Must the implacable, fierce beast

Have room and verge for ravage still,

Unmenaced by the hunter's spear;

Blast the beginnings of goodwill,

Fill the fresh-budding waste with fear?

'Tis time, 'tis time! Incarnate crime,

Embodied cruelty and lust,

Trampler in slaughter-sanguined slime,

Mocker of loyalty and trust;

Derider of the human bond,