[BNP/E3, 77 – 51]

Some men are good and other men are bad.

This is but a small form of some great Law

Transcending man’s mind, that dreamt of free-will.

Men are not equal in their minds and hearts

But all are equal in their right to bliss.

And this because all live. ‘Tis to do harm

To kill an ant, or break the spider’s web

As to wipe out a man or break his house,

[51^v]

                          We who hate

The robber who with violence doth snatch

From hall and household jewel a {…}

We, who imprison this, in words extol

Napoleon’s “glorious name”

                          Ah wretched slaves

Moths caught in every feeble candle’s glare,

Who have no necking for the distant star.

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