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 THE CHARTIST'S COMPLAINT.

AY! hast thou two faces,

Making one place two places?

One, by humble farmer seen,

Chill and wet, unlighted, mean,

Useful only, triste and damp,

Serving for a laborer's lamp?

Have the same mists another side,

To be the appanage of pride,

Gracing the rich man's wood and lake,

His park where amber mornings break,

And treacherously bright to show

His planted isle where roses glow?

O Day! and is your mightiness