The Vale of Caldene Or the Past And the Present a Poem in Six Books
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And crowd your standard ? Echo's mocking horn Will be your only answer ; for tho dead. That, when alive, on Bastilo bounty fed. Sleep in theu' quiet graves ; and those they left, Offspring of woo, by factory toil bereft Of hope, of health, and comfort — wUl they come And battle with you for your ancient homo ? Sound ye the trumpet ! — what from those rank dons. Where ruthless Mammon his sad victims pens * Let the head of Louis I'liillipe be laid low — may that day be far dis- tant I— and woe to... England':) and Euroiie's peace. —" Coming events cast their shadows before. " 174 TIIK LANDLOrxDS Or ENGLAND. Twelve legalised hours of labour, fraught M'ith pahi, To feed his maw, while they scarce food can gain, Will greet your summons ? " Why arc yo dismayed V To your own Baal cry aloud for aid : lie may send hirelings, though otfire he lack, To smito your foo, and drive him howling back : Cut we, whoso fathers toiled for yours and you, "Wo whom ye spurned as a redundant crew From our old ivied homes, and sunny hills, To waste away in these detested mills — AVhat lot have we with you ?
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