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Rulers, who neither see, nor feel, nor know, but leech-like to their fainting country cling, till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow, -- a people starved and stabbed in the untilled field...
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The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
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We look before and after, And pine for what is not Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, The lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.
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All things are sold: the very light of Heaven Is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love,...
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