Lines Written on 29 May The Anniversary of the Restoration of Charles the 2nd
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| Lines Written on 29 May, the Anniversary of Charles’s Restoration, on Hearing the Bells Ringing by |
| Written probably in 1814 or 1815. First published in 1925. |
Infatuate Britons, will you still proclaim
His memory, your direst, foulest shame?
Nor patriots revere?
Ah! when I hear each traitorous lying bell,
'Tis gallant Sidney's, Russell's, Vane's sad knell,
That pains my wounded ear.