BABYLON

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIV, Issue 35, 24 December 1886, Page 5

BABYLON

(From Jambs Jeffrey Roche's " Songs and Satires.") Her robes are of purple and scarlet. And the kings hare bent their knees To the gemmed and jewelled harlot Who sitteth on many seae. They have drunk the abominations Of her golden cap of shame ; She has drugged and debauched the nations With the mystery of her name. Her merchants have gathered riches By the power of her wantonness, And her usurers are as leeches On the world's supreme distress. She has scoured the seas as a spoiler ; Her mart is a robbers den, With the wrested toll of the toiler, And the mortgaged souls of meo, Her crimson flag is flying, Where the East and the West are one ; Her drums while the day is dying Balute tLe rising sun. She has scourged the weak and the lowly And the just with an iron rod ; She is drunk with the blood of the holy, — She shall drink of the wrath of God !