What could they gain but shadows of redress?
—So bad proceeded propagating worse;
And discipline was passion's dire excess.[AV]
Widens the fatal web, its lines extend,
And deadlier poisons in the chalice blend.
When will your trials teach you to be wise?
—O prostrate Lands, consult your agonies!
VII
No more—the guilt is banish'd,
And, with the guilt, the shame is fled;