Analogy

(To ——) HAD you lived when a tyrant King Strove to make all the slaves of one, With Nobles and with Churchmen you Had stood unflinching, pure and true, To annihilate that hateful thing Green Runnymede beat out of John? Had you lived when a wanton crew, Flash scoundrels of a day outdone, Trod down the toilers birth derides, With Cromwell and his Ironsides The brave days had discovered you, Where Naseby saw the Gallants run? And yet you, — this same knight in list For Freedom in her narrow dawn Against that One, against those Few, Vile King, vile Nobles — you, yet you Stand by the bloody Capitalist, Fight with the pander Gentleman!