Against every happiness that never knew sorrow,
And every glory that never knew love and sweat,
Against silence and death, and fear
Arise with a mighty roar!
Arise and declare your war;
For the wind of the dawn is blowing,
For the eyes of the East are glowing,
For the lark is up and the cock is crowing,
And the day of judgement is here!"
VII.
THUS shall he speak to the great parliament of the
dawn, the witness of this murderous midnight,
And even if none listens to him, I shall be there and
acclaim,
And even if they tear him to shreds, I shall be there to
confess him before your guns, and your gallows, O,
Monsters!
And even tho' you smite me with your bludgeon upon
my head,
And curse me and call me foul names, and spit on my
face and on my bare hands,
I swear that when the cock crows I shall not deny him.
And even if the power of your lie be so strong that my
own mother curse me as a traitor with her hands
clutched over her old breasts,
And my daughters with the almighty manes, turn their
faces from me and call me coward,
And the One whose love for me is a battleflag in the
storm, scream for the shame of me and adjure my
name,
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