by
Percy Bysshe Shelly –
Eng.poet (1702-1822)
*
“Men of
England, heirs of Glory,
Heroes of the unwritten story,
Nurslings of one mighty Mother
Hopes of her, and one other;
“Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquished number,
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you-
Ye are many-they are few.
“What is freedom?-ye can tell
That which slavery is , too well-
For its very name has grown
To an echo of your own.
“What art thou, Freedom? O! could slaves
Answer from their living graves
This demand-tyrants would flee
Like a dream’s dim imagery:
“Thou art not, as impostors say,
A shadow soon to pass away,
A superstition, and a name
Echoing from the cave of Fame.
Let a great Assembly be
Of the fearless and the free
On the spot of English ground
Where the plains stretch wide around.
“Ye who suffer woes untold,
or to feel, or to behold
Your lost country bought and sold
With a price of blood and gold-
“Let a vast assembly be’
And with great solemnity
Declare with measured words that ye
Are, as God has made ye free-
“Stand ye calm and resolute,
Like a forest close and mute,
With folded arms and looks which are
Weapons of unvanquished war.
“The old laws of
England-they
Whose reverend heads
with age are grey
Children of a wiser
day;
And whose solemn voice must be
Thine own
echo-Liberty!
“On those who first should violate
Such sacred heralds in their State
Rest the blood and that must ensue…
And it will not rest on you.
“And the bold, true warriors
Who have hugged Danger in wars
Will turn to those who would be free
Ashamed of such base company.
“Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquished
number-
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you-
Ye are many-they are
few.”
[AS SHOWN IN THE DECEMBER 2019 GENERAL ELECTION.]
* * *
To Britain’s Queen the nations turn
Her rebuke to her ministers for their
Lies
And to
Warn and Advise them
To
defend Her kingdom from Demise?
* * *
Added November 21-2016
Unfortunately, the message was ignored
and THE QUEEN contrary to HER CORONATION OATH failed to
PROTECT the ENGLISH CONSTITUTION-Habeas Corpus-Trial by
Jury...and ENGLISH COMMON LAW from a FOREIGN POTENTATE
[GERMANY] our ENEMY in TWO WORLD WARS.