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 John Keats
118712Lines Written on 29 May, the Anniversary of Charles’s Restoration, on Hearing the Bells RingingJohn Keats

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.