Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79. | | | | Taunton | | For a Monument at Taunton | | Robert Southey (1774–1843) |
| | | THEY suffered here whom Jeffreys doomed to death | |
| In mockery of all justice, when the judge | |
| Unjust, subservient to a cruel king, | |
| Performed his work of blood. They suffered here, | |
| The victims of that judge and of that king; | 5 |
| In mockery of all justice, here they bled, | |
| Unheard. But not unpitied, nor of God | |
| Unseen, the innocent suffered; not unheard | |
| The innocent blood cried vengeance; for at length | |
| The indignant nation in its power arose, | 10 |
| Resistless. Then that wicked judge took flight, | |
| Disguised in vain: not always is the Lord | |
| Slow to revenge. A miserable man, | |
| He fell beneath the people’s rage, and still | |
| The children curse his memory. From the throne | 15 |
| The obdurate bigot who commissioned him, | |
| Inhuman James, was driven. He lived to drag | |
| Long years of frustrate hope; he lived to load | |
| More blood upon his soul. Let tell the Boyne, | |
| Let Londonderry tell, his guilt and shame; | 20 |
| And that immortal day when on thy shores, | |
| La Hogue, the purple ocean dashed the dead! | | | | |
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