Monday, October 3, 2011

Occupy Wallstreet "Ye are many -They are few"

'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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