Eight Questions Answered in Two
Words.
What is it props the chair of state ?1
What shields the wasteful tyrant’s throne ?2
What fills the clergy’s purse and plate ?3
What gives deceit its specious tone ?4
What makes the senseless million slaves ?5
What forged the chains of mean condition ?6
What spreads dread terror round men’s graves
?7
What
fools the mind ?—Base Superstition.8