The complete works of Percy Bysshe Shelley ... . 337. Feelings of a Republican onthe Fall of Bonaparte HATED thee, fallen tyrant! I did groanTo think that a most thou, shouldst dance and revel on the graveOf Liberty. Thou mightst have built thy throneWhere it had stood even now: thou didst preferA frail and bloody pomp which time has sweptIn fragments towards oblivion. Massacre,For this I prayed, would on thy sleep have and Slavery, Rapine, Fear, and Lust,And stifled thee, their minister. I know 33^ On the Fall of Bonaparte Too late, since thou and France ar

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The complete works of Percy Bysshe Shelley ... . 337. Feelings of a Republican onthe Fall of Bonaparte HATED thee, fallen tyrant! I did groanTo think that a most thou, shouldst dance and revel on the graveOf Liberty. Thou mightst have built thy throneWhere it had stood even now: thou didst preferA frail and bloody pomp which time has sweptIn fragments towards oblivion. Massacre,For this I prayed, would on thy sleep have and Slavery, Rapine, Fear, and Lust,And stifled thee, their minister. I know 33^ On the Fall of Bonaparte Too late, since thou and France are in the dust,That virtue owns a more eternal foeThan force or fraud : old Custom, legal Crime,And bloody Faith the foulest birth of time.

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