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.

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