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I heard an angel speak last night	A
And he said 'Write	A
Write a Nation's curse for me	B
And send it over the Western Sea '	C
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I faltered taking up the word	A
'Not so my lord	A
If curses must be choose another	D
To send thy curse against my brother	D
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'For I am bound by gratitude	A
By love and blood	A
To brothers of mine across the sea	B
Who stretch out kindly hands to me '	-
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'Therefore ' the voice said 'shalt thou write	A
My curse to night	A
From the summits of love a curse is driven	E
As lightning is from the tops of heaven '	-
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'Not so ' I answered 'Evermore	D
My heart is sore	D
For my own land's sins for little feet	A
Of children bleeding along the street	A
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'For parked up honors that gainsay	F
The right of way	F
For almsgiving through a door that is	G
Not open enough for two friends to kiss	H
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'For love of freedom which abates	I
Beyond the Straits	I
For patriot virtue starved to vice on	J
Self praise self interest and suspicion	E
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'For an oligarchic parliament	A
And bribes well meant	A
What curse to another land assign	K
When heavy souled for the sins of mine '	-
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'Therefore ' the voice said 'shalt thou write	A
My curse to night	A
Because thou hast strength to see and hate	A
A foul thing done within thy gate '	-
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'Not so ' I answered once again	L
'To curse choose men	L
For I a woman have only known	M
How the heart melts and the tears run down '	-
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'Therefore ' the voice said 'shalt thou write	A
My curse to night	A
Some women weep and curse I say	F
And no one marvels night and day	F
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'And thou shalt take their part to night	A
Weep and write	A
A curse from the depths of womanhood	A
Is very salt and bitter and good '	-
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So thus I wrote and mourned indeed	A
What all may read	A
And thus as was enjoined on me	B
I send it over the Western Sea	B
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The Curse	N
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Because ye have broken your own chain	O
With the strain	O
Of brave men climbing a Nation's height	A
Yet thence bear down with brand and thong	P
On souls of others for this wrong	P
This is the curse Write	A
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Because yourselves are standing straight	A
In the state	A
Of Freedom's foremost acolyte	A
Yet keep calm footing all the time	Q
On writhing bond slaves for this crime	Q
This is the curse Write	A
	-
Because ye prosper in God's name	R
With a claim	R
To honor in the old world's sight	A
Yet do the fiend's work perfectly	B
In strangling martyrs for this lie	S
This is the curse Write	A
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Ye shall watch while kings conspire	D
Round the people's smouldering fire	D
And warm for your part	A
Shall never dare O shame	R
To utter the thought into flame	R
Which burns at your heart	A
This is the curse Write	A
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Ye shall watch while nations strive	T
With the bloodhounds die or survive	T
Drop faint from their jaws	U
Or throttle them backward to death	V
And only under your breath	V
Shall favor the cause	W
This is the curse Write	A
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Ye shall watch while strong men draw	D
The nets of feudal law	D
To strangle the weak	X
And counting the sin for a sin	Y
Your soul shall be sadder within	Y
Than the word ye shall speak	X
This is the curse Write	A
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When good men are praying erect	A
That Christ may avenge His elect	A
And deliver the earth	Z
The prayer in your ears said low	A2
Shall sound like the tramp of a foe	A2
That's driving you forth	B2
This is the curse Write	A
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When wise men give you their praise	C2
They shall praise in the heat of the phrase	C2
As if carried too far	D
When ye boast your own charters kept true	D
Ye shall blush for the thing which ye do	D
Derides what ye are	D
This is the curse Write	A
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When fools cast taunts at your gate	A
Your scorn ye shall somewhat abate	A
As ye look o'er the wall	D2
For your conscience tradition and name	R
Explode with a deadlier blame	R
Than the worst of them all	D2
This is the curse Write	A
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Go wherever ill deeds shall be done	E
Go plant your flag in the sun	E
Beside the ill doers	E2
And recoil from clenching the curse	N
Of God's witnessing Universe	N
With a curse of yours	F2
This is the curse Write	A

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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