VI.

And is there not Religion, and Reform,

Peace, War, the taxes, and what's called the "Nation"?

The struggle to be pilots in a storm?[654]The landed and the monied speculation?

The joys of mutual hate to keep them warm,

Instead of Love, that mere hallucination?

Now Hatred is by far the longest pleasure;

Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.

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