Liberty?

O england boasted land of liberty 

Wi strangers still thou mayst thy title own 

But thy poor slaves the alteration see 

Wi many a loss to them the truth is known 

Like emigrating bird thy freedoms flown 

While mongrel clowns low as their rooting plough 

Disdain thy laws to put in force their own 

& every village owns its tyrants now 

& parish slaves must live as parish kings alow

(1821)

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