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Stanzas to Queen Victoria and Other Poems
Stanzas to Queen Victoria and Other Poems Author:John Burke General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1866 Original Publisher: F.A. Brady Subjects: Slavery History / United States / General Social Science / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies Social Science / Slavery Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there ma... more »y be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: BURDEN OF THE SOUTH. SCENES IN CONGRESS. Thou Cambrian pillar of the Golden State, The muse of Satire summons thee, though late, To bare thy head and heavenward lift thy hand, Before that dread tribunal of our land, -- A people outraged by thy shameful brawls, Within the sacred precincts of those halls Where wisdom, truth, and equity preside, And law and reason flourish side by side. Such brawls are only worthy of the zones Where bears and panthers strive with picaroons, -- Worthy the roles of those Francisco hells Where hist of gain with murderous riot dwells, -- Worthy the school where blood-stained Herbert, learned In every vice, for civic honors yearned, And gained them, too; to add to our disgrace, The sickening horrors of his brazen face! Is it for statesmen silvered o'er with age, In ruthless vengeance thus to fume and rage? -- To call, in accents savage and untoward, Their peer " a liar, slanderer, canting coward ?" -- To rush with rampant fury from their chairs (As beasts of prey from out their hidden lairs), And fight with canes, revolvers, or their fists, Like ruffian bullies in our prize-fight lists ; Or creep with velvet footsteps like an ounce, And, unawares, upon their victims pounce ? Ye Gods! Not thus did JJschines contend ; Not thus Demosthenes, to gain his end, To checkmate monarchs, or to win a crown, Of Athens worthy -- worthy his renown ; Not thus contended Bacon wi...« less