II

by Percy Bysshe Shelley · (no date)
Published 01/07/1880
Part of Lines written during the Castlereagh Administration

Her sons are as stones in the way—

They are masses of senseless clay—

They are trodden, and move not away,—

The abortion with which she travaileth

Is Liberty, smitten to death.

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