Excerpt from Sonnets On The Evils Of The Day. I raise my voice because my brain's on fireAbout the open evils of the day;When scoundrels hold our politics in sway, And ruin morals for their base desireOf lucre; when, because a man's a liar, He's worthiest to administer the right;When liberticides are cherished for their might, And hored for the meanness they inspire. The times are foul when gold can pay for wrongs, And law can punish only some for crime;When dissipation poisons that sweet timeOf thoughtless youth; when there are idle throngs About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techlogy to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.