The above verses were written to complement The Voice of the People, a Chartist poem by WHC published in The Northern Star and Leeds General Advertiser on 4 December 1841.

'Tis the voice of the people I hear it on high
It peals o'er the mountains - it soars to the sky
Through wide fields of heather, it wings its swift flight
Like thunders of heaven arrayed in their might

It rushes still on, like the torrent's loud roar
And bears on its surges the wrongs of the poor
Its shock like the earthquake shall fill with dismay
The hearts of the tyrants and sweep them away