Of sottish vice or desperate breach of law,

To which (and who can tell where or how soon?)

He may be roused. This Boy the fields produce:

His spade and hoe, mattock and glittering scythe,[779]

The carter's whip that[780] on his shoulder rests

In air high-towering with a boorish pomp,

The sceptre of his sway; his country's name,

Her equal rights, her churches and her schools—

What have they done for him? And, let me ask,

For tens of thousands uninformed as he?