'And these words shall then become Like Oppression's thundered doom Ringing through each heart and brain, Heard again - again - again - 'Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number - Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you - Ye are many - they are few.'
.....last 2 stanzas of "The Masque of Anarchy"
by Percy Bysshe Shelley,
Written on the occasion of the massacre of protesters carried
out by the British Government at Peterloo, Manchester 1819
Full poem may be read at: http://www.artofeurope.com/shelley/she5.htm
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