“TYRANNY.”

By Francis William Lauderdale Adams

“‘ Tyranny’? Yes, that's it!

We are not afraid

To face the word that's fit

For what we've said!

“It's the tyranny of the Many,

That will not allow

There's the right to any

To seek wealth and power now

“At the expense of the Many.

Say, that one or this

Works‘ over hours': then he

Drives us all to the abyss,

“Where, struggling together

One rises again

While the rest all together

Are stifled and slain.

“From this death-strife of brothers

Comes the tyranny of One.

That's your sort. But we others,

We prefer our own!”