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I made two fights for the people.
First I left my party, bearing the gonfalon / Of independence, for reform, and was defeated.
Next I used my rebel strength / To capture the standard of my old party --
And I captured it, but I was defeated.
Discredited and discarded, misanthropical, / I turned to the solace of gold / And I used my remnant of power / To fasten myself like a saprophyte / Upon the putrescent carcass / Of Thomas Rhodes' bankrupt bank, / As assignee of the fund.
Everyone now turned from me.
My hair grew white, / My purple lusts grew gray, / Tobacco and whisky lost their savor / And for years Death ignored me / As he does a hog.