“I met Murder on the way —
He had a mask like Castlereagh”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley , The Masque of Anarchy

Very smooth he looked, yet grim;
Seven blood-hounds followed him.
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The Masque of Anarchy (1819)

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English Romantic poet 1792–1822

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