England in 1819

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1. An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king,—
2. Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow
3. Through public scorn,—mud from a muddy spring,—
4. Rulers who neither see, nor feel, nor know,
5. But leech-like to their fainting country cling,
6. Till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow,—
7. A people starved and stabbed in the unfilled field,—
8. An army, which liberticide and prey
9. Makes as a two-edged sword to all who wield,—
10. Golden and sanguine laws which tempt and slay;
11. Religion Christless, Godless—a book sealed;
12. A Senate,—Time's worst statute unrepealed,—
13. Are graves, from which a glorious Phantom may
14. Burst, to illumine our tempestuous day.