VII.

No fool that bows the back he

Feels fit for scourge or brand,

No scurril scribes that lackey

The lords of Lackeyland,

No penman that yearns, as he turns on his pallet,

For the place or the pence of a peer or a valet,

No whelp of as currish a pack

As the litter whose yelp it gives back,

Though he answer the cry of his brother

As echoes might answer from caves,

Shall be witness as though for a mother

Whose children were slaves.

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