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ReadingWillow structured literacy program for Australian students

Fragment: 'What Men Gain Fairly'

Percy Bysshe Shelley·1792–1822
Lines:9Movement:Romanticism
What men gain fairly--that they should possess,And children may inherit idleness,From him who earns it--This is understood;Private injustice may be general good.But he who gains by base and armed wrong,Or guilty fraud, or base compliances,May be despoiled; even as a stolen dressIs stripped from a convicted thief; and heLeft in the nakedness of infamy.