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Ye know the Leopard changes not his spots.

The Prince of Peace, who spake eternal truth,

Confirmed this fact of Nature. He, with ruth

Omniscient, saw afar, the scarlet clots

Of English nature, in profidious plots

For conquest, mangling not alone brave youth

With teeth set, but old age without a tooth,

And Mothers, clutching up their bleeding tots.

Oh, yea, this beast makes his own desert, still;

And Ireland, India and Egypt show

His spots so spread, he is one ghastly glow;

Aye, as your sires saw him from Bunker Hill.

Oh, vain, gold rubs the skin and press shouts, "Lo!

It has not now one spot of threatening ill."