"Let Us Alone"

“LET US ALONE! The unclean spirits cried—
     “Why coms’t thou to torment us ere the time?”
     “Let us alone!” still adding crime to crime,
Shrieks the arch-traitor and Liberticide.
Who, drunk with hate, his country hath defied,
     And, with confederate thieves, would drag her down
     From the high places of her old renown,
And, with her ruin, sate his devilish pride.
No, Rebel, no!—while knaves are held in scorn,
     And plotters of sedition are abhorred;
While good men shudder at the wretch forsworn.
     Whose perjuries mock the vengeance of the Lord;
While Justice lives, and God maintains his throne,
The devils are “cast out”—not “left alone.”