Towards democracy

468 ~ Lowards Democracy .

And it seemed to me that the most ignorant unbred giri « or boy amongst them, who loved another and worshiped in . mortal form a divine creature,

Knew more and possessed more even than them all.

PorTLAND

N the grey North-East of winter the great granite rock,

see, overhung with cloud!

And from the top no portion of the mainland yisibleonly a few war-ships below, and Chesil Bank, its far end rising into fog.

But behind, on the high plateau of the rock, among the quarries,

Where neither the sea nor the ships nor the mainland, but only the dreary piles of stone and drearier prison-walls, can at any time be descried, and the arméd sentinels,

There, behold! the conyicts in gangs, ten or twelve to a gang—and to each gang one or two warders, with muskets—

The sullen heavy-faced convicts, and (in that place) every day more sullen growing—hauling at trollies, or quarrying or * dressing the stone:

Damned,

Without interest in life.

And so onward, through more warders, some with and some without muskets, And through huge stone gateways and bastions, and