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INSCRIPTION FOR A MONUMENT IN THE NEW FOREST, by                 Poet Analysis     Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the place where william's kingly power
Last Line: Pray for the wicked rulers of mankind.
Subject(s): Canada; Courts & Courtiers; Evil; Forests; King, William Lyon Mackenzie (1874-1950); Prayer; Canadians; Woods


THIS is the place where William's kingly power
Did from their poor and peaceful homes expel,
Unfriended, desolate, and shelterless,
The habitants of all the fertile tract
Far as these wilds extend. He levelled down
Their little cottages, he bade their fields
Lie barren, so that o'er the forest waste
He might more royally pursue his sports!
If that thine heart be human, passenger!
Sure it will swell within thee, and thy lips
Will mutter curses on him. Think thou, then,
What cities flame, what hosts unsepulchred
Pollute the passing wind, when raging power
Drives on his blood-hounds to the chase of man;
And as thy thoughts anticipate that day
When God shall judge aright, in charity
Pray for the wicked rulers of mankind.





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