NOT that I love thy children, whose dull eyes
See nothing save their own unlovely woe,
Whose minds know nothing, nothing care to know,--
But that the roar of thy Democracies,
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I feel the same way about children; like the difference between a primary school class and one of young adults. Children can be boring.The meaning of the sonnet is not so clear as it advances, however. He prizes Liberty above all else, yet he remains unmoved 'and yet, and yet, '. He is like the victims on the barricades only in some things. Intriguing.