Hold your mad hands! for ever on your plain <br />Must the gorged vulture clog his beak with blood? <br />For ever must your Niger's tainted flood, <br />Roll to the ravenous shark his banquet slain? <br />Hold your mad hands! and learn at length to know, <br />And turn your vengeance on the common foe, <br />Yon treacherous vessel and her godless crew! <br />Let never traders with false pretext fair <br />Set on your shores again their wicked feet: <br />With interdict and indignation meet <br />Repel them, and with fire and sword pursue! <br />Avarice, the white cadaverous fiend, is there, <br />Who spreads his toils accursed wide and far, <br />And for his purveyor calls the demon War.<br /><br />Robert Southey<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/hold-your-mad-hands/
