XII

by Percy Bysshe Shelley · (no date)
Published 01/07/1880
Part of To the Lord Chancellor

By thy complicity with lust and hate—

Thy thirst for tears—thy hunger after gold—

The ready frauds which ever on thee wait—

The servile arts in which thou hast grown old—

#corruption #greed #lust #moral decay #percy bysshe shelley

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