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Shelley Hated Tyrants Too
Here we have one of the most liberal, sensitive, educated men of the time who was not afraid to call a spade a spade. Unlike some of today's poets (who probably protested the war in Iraq), I think Shelley's heart would have been made glad at the prospect of doing away with the blight of Saddam's tyranny.
Feelings of a Republican on the Fall of Bonaparte I hated thee, fallen tyrant! I did groan To think that a most unambitious slave, Like thou, shouldst dance and revel on the grave Of Liberty. Thou mightst have built thy throne Where it had stood even now: thou didst prefer A frail and bloody pomp which Time has swept In fragments towards Oblivion. Massacre, For this I prayed, would on thy sleep have crept, Treason and Slavery, Rapine, Fear, and Lust, And stifled thee, their minister. I know Too late, since thou and France are in the dust, That Virtue owns a more eternal foe Than Force or Fraud: old Custom, legal Crime, And bloody Faith the foulest birth of Time. by Percy Bysshe Shelley |
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Re: Shelley Hated Tyrants Too
Preach it, brother.
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