Or held to slavish throats starvation’s knife.

CXXXI

No rights usurped, against the common good

Breathed out defiance, and the claims withstood

Of labour and of life, where all by labour lived:

No bonds were there but bonds of brotherhood.

CXXXII

No temple-gloom obscured the lucent skies,

Nor incense fume of faith’s dead sacrifice,

No baneful toil made cities desolate