Note 1 — ISAIAH. (continued 4)

The individual culprit may sometimes Unpunished to his after-reckoning go: Not thus collective man; for public crimes Draw on their proper punishment below. When nations go astray, from age to age The effects remain, a fatal heritage.

Bear witness, Egypt, thy huge monuments, Of priestly fraud and tyranny austere! Bear witness thou, whose only name presents All holy feelings to religion dear— In earth’s dark circlet once the precious gem Of living light—O fallen Jerusalem!—Southey.