Strikers in Hyde Park

Strikers in Hyde Park

AWOOF reversed the fatal shuttles weave,How slow! but never once they slip the thread.Hither, upon the Georgian idlers’ tread,Up spacious ways the lindens interleave,Clouding the royal air since yester-eve,Come men bereft of time and scant of bread,Loud, who were dumb, immortal, who were dead,Thro’ the cowed world their kingdom to retrieve.What ails thee, England? Altar, mart, and grangeDream of the knife by night; not so, not soThe clear Republic waits the general throe,Along her noonday mountains’ open range.God be with both! for one is young to knowThe other’s rote of evil and of change.

AWOOF reversed the fatal shuttles weave,How slow! but never once they slip the thread.Hither, upon the Georgian idlers’ tread,Up spacious ways the lindens interleave,Clouding the royal air since yester-eve,Come men bereft of time and scant of bread,Loud, who were dumb, immortal, who were dead,Thro’ the cowed world their kingdom to retrieve.What ails thee, England? Altar, mart, and grangeDream of the knife by night; not so, not soThe clear Republic waits the general throe,Along her noonday mountains’ open range.God be with both! for one is young to knowThe other’s rote of evil and of change.

AWOOF reversed the fatal shuttles weave,How slow! but never once they slip the thread.Hither, upon the Georgian idlers’ tread,Up spacious ways the lindens interleave,Clouding the royal air since yester-eve,Come men bereft of time and scant of bread,Loud, who were dumb, immortal, who were dead,Thro’ the cowed world their kingdom to retrieve.

AWOOF reversed the fatal shuttles weave,

How slow! but never once they slip the thread.

Hither, upon the Georgian idlers’ tread,

Up spacious ways the lindens interleave,

Clouding the royal air since yester-eve,

Come men bereft of time and scant of bread,

Loud, who were dumb, immortal, who were dead,

Thro’ the cowed world their kingdom to retrieve.

What ails thee, England? Altar, mart, and grangeDream of the knife by night; not so, not soThe clear Republic waits the general throe,Along her noonday mountains’ open range.God be with both! for one is young to knowThe other’s rote of evil and of change.

What ails thee, England? Altar, mart, and grange

Dream of the knife by night; not so, not so

The clear Republic waits the general throe,

Along her noonday mountains’ open range.

God be with both! for one is young to know

The other’s rote of evil and of change.


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