Percy Bysshe Shelley, "England in 1819", page 399.
This poem talks about a time when the king has passed and the princes are about to take over. The princes are not in "in the loop" with how to rule. "Rulers who neither see nor feel nor know" . The general public do not like the princes, "through public scorn, mud from a muddy spring" .
I'm not sure what happened to your notes but I can't read past "through public scorn, mud from a muddy spring" . I wonder what the reason would be for the public not liking the princes? Is it their nonexperience or is it the peoples longing for a republic that represents them rather than the elite? It is an interesting poem, just as Shelley is an interesting poet.
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