Lines Written on 29 May The Anniversary of the Restoration of Charles the 2nd
by John Keats
· (no date)
Published 01/07/1880
Infatuate Britons, will you still proclaim
His memory, your direst, foulest shame?
Nor patriots revere?
Ah! when I hear each traitorous lying bell,
'Tis gallant Sidney's, Russell's, Vane's sad knell,
That pains my wounded ear.