THEY perish'd here whom Jefferies doom'd to death In mockery of all justice, when he came The bloody judge, the minion of his king, Commission'd to destroy. They perish'd here, The victims of that judge and of that king, In mockery of all justice perish'd here, Unheard! but not unpitied, nor of God Unseen, the innocent suffered! not in vain The widow and the orphan, not in vain The innocent blood cried vengeance! for they rose, At length they rose, the people in their power, Resistless. Then in vain that bloody judge Disguised, sought flight: not always is the Lord Slow to revenge! a miserable man He fell beneath the people's rage, and still The children curse his memory. From his throne The sullen bigot who commission'd him, The tyrant James was driven. He lived to drag Long years of frustrate hope, he lived to load More blood upon his soul. Let tell the Boyne, Let Londonderry tell his guilt and shame, And that immortal day when on thy shores, La Hogue, the purple ocean dash'd the dead! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: SETH COMPTON by EDGAR LEE MASTERS PASSER MORTUUS EST by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY THOSE EVENING BELLS by THOMAS MOORE THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 71. THE CHOICE (1) by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI DANSE RUSSE by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS BALLADE OF A TRAVELLER'S JINX by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS ON THE INDESTRUCTIBILITY OF READING MATTER by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS |