QuoteQuest“An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king, — Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow Through public scorn, — mud from a muddy spring, — Rulers who neither see, nor feel, nor know, But leech-like to their fainting country cling, Till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow.”
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Source
- Title
- Wikiquote: Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Type
- reference · Secondary source
- Held by
- Wikiquote
Context
"England in 1819" (1819), l. 1
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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Percy Bysshe Shelley. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley
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