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Rail on Rail on ye heartless crew	A
My strains were never meant for you	A
Remorseless Rancour still reveal	B
And damn the verse you cannot feel	B
Invoke those kindred passions' aid	C
Whose baleful stings your breasts pervade	C
Crush if you can the hopes of youth	D
Trampling regardless on the Truth	D
Truth's Records you consult in vain	E
She will not blast her native strain	E
She will assist her votary's cause	F
His will at least be her applause	G
Your prayer the gentle Power will spurn	H
To Fiction's motley altar turn	H
Who joyful in the fond address	I
Her favoured worshippers will bless	I
And lo she holds a magic glass	J
Where Images reflected pass	J
Bent on your knees the Boon receive	K
This will assist you to deceive	K
The glittering gift was made for you	A
Now hold it up to public view	A
Lest evil unforeseen betide	L
A Mask each canker'd brow shall hide	L
Whilst Truth my sole desire is nigh	M
Prepared the danger to defy	M
There is the Maid's perverted name	N
And there the Poet's guilty Flame	N
Gloaming a deep phosphoric fire	O
Threatening but ere it spreads retire	P
Says Truth Up Virgins do not fear	Q
The Comet rolls its Influence here	R
'Tis Scandal's Mirror you perceive	K
These dazzling Meteors but deceive	K
Approach and touch Nay do not turn	H
It blazes there but will not burn	H
At once the shivering Mirror flies	S
Teeming no more with varnished Lies	S
The baffled friends of Fiction start	T
Too late desiring to depart	T
Truth poising high Ithuriel's spear	Q
Bids every Fiend unmask'd appear	Q
The vizard tears from every face	U
And dooms them to a dire disgrace	U
For e'er they compass their escape	V
Each takes perforce a native shape	V
The Leader of the wrathful Band	W
Behold a portly Female stand	W
She raves impelled by private pique	X
This mean unjust revenge to seek	X
From vice to save this virtuous Age	Y
Thus does she vent indecent rage	Y
What child has she of promise fair	Z
Who claims a fostering Mother's care	Z
Whose Innocence requires defence	A2
Or forms at least a smooth pretence	A2
Thus to disturb a harmless Boy	B2
His humble hope and peace annoy	B2
She need not fear the amorous rhyme	C2
Love will not tempt her future time	C2
For her his wings have ceased to spread	D2
No more he flutters round her head	D2
Her day's Meridian now is past	E2
The clouds of Age her Sun o'ercast	E2
To her the strain was never sent	E2
For feeling Souls alone 'twas meant	E2
The verse she seized unask'd unbade	E2
And damn'd ere yet the whole was read	E2
Yes for one single erring verse	A2
Pronounced an unrelenting Curse	A2
Yes at a first and transient view	A
Condemned a heart she never knew	A
Can such a verdict then decide	E2
Which springs from disappointed pride	E2
Without a wondrous share of Wit	E2
To judge is such a Matron fit	E2
The rest of the censorious throng	F2
Who to this zealous Band belong	F2
To her a general homage pay	G2
And right or wrong her wish obey	G2
Why should I point my pen of steel	B
To break such flies upon the wheel	B
With minds to Truth and Sense unknown	H2
Who dare not call their words their own	H2
Rail on Rail on ye heartless Crew	A
Your Leader's grand design pursue	A
Secure behind her ample shield	E2
Yours is the harvest of the field	E2
My path with thorns you cannot strew	A
Nay more my warmest thanks are due	A
When such as you revile my Name	N
Bright beams the rising Sun of Fame	N
Chasing the shades of envious night	E2
Outshining every critic Light	E2
Such such as you will serve to show	I2
Each radiant tint with higher glow	I2
Vain is the feeble cheerless toil	J2
Your efforts on yourselves recoil	J2
Then Glory still for me you raise	A2
Yours is the Censure mine the Praise	A2
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BYRON	K2

George Gordon Byron

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