An Ode Against (For) Common Sense

As the Irish nationalist Arthur O'Conell was being jailed for sedition (1798), he handed out the following poem:

The pomp of courts and pride of kings
I prize above all earthly things;
I love my country; the king
Above all men his praise I sing:
The royal banners are displayed,
And may success the standard aid.

I fain would banish far from hence,
The Rights of Man and Common Sense;
Confusion to his odious reign,
That foe to princes, Thomas Paine!
Defeat and ruin seize the cause
Of France, its liberties and laws!

Of course, if the reader takes the first line of the first stanza, then the first line of the second stanza, and repeats the alternating process with the second, third and fourth lines, and so on, they will have no difficulty in writing out quite a different poem.