4. Have ye leisure, comfort, calm, Shelter, food, love's gentle balm? Or what is it ye buy so dear _15 With your pain and with your fear? 5. The seed ye sow, another reaps; The wealth ye find, another keeps; The robes ye weave, another wears; The arms ye forge; another bears. _20 6. Sow seed,--but let no tyrant reap; Find wealth,--let no impostor heap; Weave robes,--let not the idle wear; Forge arms,--in your defence to bear. 7. Shrink to your cellars, holes, and cells; _25 In halls ye deck another dwells. Why shake the chains ye wrought? Ye see The steel ye tempered glance on ye. 8. With plough and spade, and hoe and loom, Trace your grave, and build your tomb, _30 And weave your winding-sheet, till fair England be your sepulchre. *** SIMILES FOR TWO POLITICAL CHARACTERS OF 1819. [Published by Medwin, "The Athenaeum", August 25, 1832; reprinted by Mrs. Shelley, "Poetical Works", 1839. Our title is that of 1839, 2nd edition. The poem is found amongst the Harvard manuscripts, headed "To S--th and O--gh".] 1. As from an ancestral oak Two empty ravens sound their clarion, Yell by yell, and croak by croak, When they scent the noonday smoke Of fresh human carrion:-- _5 2. As two gibbering night-birds flit From their bowers of deadly yew Through the night to frighten it, When the moon is in a fit, And the stars are none, or few:-- _10 3. As a shark and dog-fish wait Under an Atlantic isle, For the negro-ship, whose freight Is the theme of their debate, Wrinkling their red gills the while-- _15 4. Are ye, two vultures sick for battle, Two scorpions under one wet stone, Two bloodless wolves whose dry throats rattle, Two crows perched on the murrained cattle, Two vipers tangled into one. _20 NOTE: _7 yew 1832; hue 1839. ** FRAGMENT: TO THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND. [Published by Dr. Garnett, "Relics of Shelley", 1862.] People of England, ye who toil and groan, Who reap the harvests which are not your own, Who weave the clothes which your oppressors wear, And for your own take the inclement air; Who build warm houses... _5 And are like gods who give them all they have, And nurse them from the cradle to the grave... ... *** FRAGMENT: 'WHAT MEN GAIN FAIRLY'. (Perhaps connected with that immediately preceding (Forman).--ED.) [Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Poetical Works", 1839, 2nd edition.]