Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Priestley
Though rous'd by that dark Vizir Riot rude
 Have driven our Priestley o'er the Ocean swell;
 Though Superstition and her wolfish brood
Bay his mild radiance, impotent and fell;
Calm in his halls of brightness he shall dwell!
 For lo! Religion at his strong behest
 Starts with mild anger from the Papal spell,
And flings to Earth her tinsel-glittering vest,
Her mitred State and cumbrous Pomp unholy;
 And Justice wakes to bid th' Oppressor wail
 Insulting aye the wrongs of patient Folly;
And from her dark retreat by Wisdom won
Meek Nature slowly lifts her matron veil
To smile with fondness on her gazing Son!