. The complete works of Percy Bysshe Shelley .... Fragment of a Satire onSatire F gibbets, axes, confiscations, chains,And racks of subtle torture, if the painsOf shame, of fiery Hells tempes-tuous through the caverns of the shadowy the damned into the murky airWhile the meek blest sit smiling ; if DespairAnd Hate, the rapid bloodhounds with which TerrorHunts through the world the homeless steps of Error,Are the true secrets of the commonweal/ To make men wise and just; . . And not the sophisms of revenge and than is revenge . .185 Poems Written in 1820 Th

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. The complete works of Percy Bysshe Shelley .... Fragment of a Satire onSatire F gibbets, axes, confiscations, chains,And racks of subtle torture, if the painsOf shame, of fiery Hells tempes-tuous through the caverns of the shadowy the damned into the murky airWhile the meek blest sit smiling ; if DespairAnd Hate, the rapid bloodhounds with which TerrorHunts through the world the homeless steps of Error,Are the true secrets of the commonweal/ To make men wise and just; . . And not the sophisms of revenge and than is revenge . .185 Poems Written in 1820 Then send the priests to every hearth and homeTo preach the burning wrath which is to come,In words like flakes of sulphur, such as thawThe frozen tears . .If Satires scourge could wake the slumbering houndsOf Conscience, or erase the deeper leprous scars of callous infamy ;If it could make the present not to charm the dark past never to have turn regret to hope; who that has seenWhat Southey is and was, would not ex

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