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Queen Mab
...
War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight,
The lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.
...
The man Of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
Power, like a desolating pestilence,
Pollutes whate'er it touches; and obedience,
Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth,
Makes slaves of men, and of the human frame
A mechanized automaton.
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