Sonnet to Liberty

NOT that I love thy children, whose dull eyes

See nothing save their own unlovely woe

Whose minds know nothing, nothing care to know,--

But that the roar of thy Democracies

Thy reigns of Terror, thy great Anarchies

Mirror my wildest passions like the sea,--

And give my rage a brother----! Liberty!

For this sake only do thy dissonant cries