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Anarchy the Skeleton

Anarchy the Skeleton

And many more Destructions played In this ghastly masquerade, All disguised, even to the eyes, Like Bishops, lawyers, peers, or spies.. . . And Anarchy, the Skeleton, Bowed and grinned to every one, As well as if his education Had cost ten millions to the nation. Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Mask of Anarchy