What is my music? Hard-wrung groans

From strong men stricken down:

Women's and children's feebler moans,

And the slow death-bell's muffled tones

In every town.

Who are my lieges? Those that rule

In Vestry and at Board;

The Town-hall's glib and giddy fool,

The mob's most abject slave and tool

Though called its lord.