Superiority

Rogueing, lying, 

Gambling, bragging,

We're men of the Stock Exchange,

Lawers, bankers

Land and mill grabbers

We're financiers of famous name.

'Tis ours to will

When nations kill,

When we maim for our Glory and gain:

We are the wise ones,

The shrewd and the proud ones,

Who hold all the rabble in chain.

The chain's but a thread

Invisibly sped

Through child minds in their unreasoning age:

We set such a seed

As will grant us to bleed

The creatures deluded in their adult stage.

We teach them to act

In such fashion that

Will make them our tools with ease:

We arraign them, blast them,

Quote them, and hymn them,

Just as our will they please.

But should in time later

They reject all our blather,

And act by the rules we act;

'Twill be up with our ghost,

All our profits be lost,

They'll have learned to sort fiction from fact.