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Albeit nurtured in democracy, / And liking best that state republican / Where every man is Kinglike and no man / Is crowned above his fellows, yet I see, / Spite of this modern fret for Liberty, / Better the rule of One, whom all obey, / Than to let clamorous demagogues betray / Our freedom with the kiss of anarchy.
Wherefore I love them not whose hands profane / Plant the red flag upon the piled-up street / For no right cause, beneath whose ignorant reign / Arts, Culture, Reverence, Honour, all things fade, / Save Treason and the dagger of her trade, / Or Murder with his silent bloody feet.