XXXIII.

“And Man was told to love where forced to hate, And saw his fairest fields partitioned forth To Nobles--so miscalled--by robbery great, Whose phantom title was ancestral worth, Their own sole merit accident of birth! Heart-bitterness and worming discontent Made all the land--the loveliest upon earth-- In sullen, fierce indifference bide till rent The Thunder-clouds, supine--and some on Vengeance bent.