On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 9:37 AM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> Just learned that Wordsworth got burned when Pennsylvania suspended interest payments on some bonds he held, so he wrote a sonnet about it!
>
> To the Pennsylvanians
> by William Wordsworth (1845)
>
> Days undefiled by luxury or sloth,
> Firm self-denial, manners grave and staid,
> Rights equal, laws with cheerfulness obeyed,
> Words that require no sanction from an oath,
> And simple honesty a common growth--
> This high repute, with bounteous Nature's aid,
> Won confidence, now ruthlessly betrayed
> At will, your power the measure of your troth!--
> All who revere the memory of Penn
> Grieve for the land on whose wild woods his name
> Was fondly grafted with a virtuous aim,
> Renounced, abandoned by degenerate Men
> For state-dishonour black as ever came
> To upper air from Mammon's loathsome den.
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