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I	A
Oh Venice Venice when thy marble walls	B
Are level with the waters there shall be	C
A cry of nations o'er thy sunken halls	B
A loud lament along the sweeping sea	C
If I a northern wanderer weep for thee	C
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What should thy sons do anything but weep	D
And yet they only murmur in their sleep	D
In contrast with their fathers as the slime	E
The dull green ooze of the receding deep	D
Is with the dashing of the spring tide foam	F
That drives the sailor shipless to his home	F
Are they to those that were and thus they creep	D
Crouching and crab like through their sapping streets	G
Oh Agony that centuries should reap	D
No mellower harvest Thirteen hundred years	H
Of wealth and glory turn'd to dust and tears	I
And every monument the stranger meets	G
Church palace pillar as a mourner greets	G
And even the Lion all subdued appears	H
And the harsh sound of the barbarian	J
With dull and daily dissonance repeats	G
The echo of thy tyrant's voice along	K
The soft waves once all musical to song	K
That heaved beneath the moonlight with the throng	K
Of gondolas and to the busy hum	L
Of cheerful creatures whose most sinful deeds	M
Were but the overbeating of the heart	N
And flow of too much happiness which needs	M
The aid of age to turn its course apart	N
From the luxuriant and voluptuous flood	O
Of sweet sensations battling with the blood	O
But these are better than the gloomy errors	P
The weeds of nations in their last decay	Q
When Vice walks forth with her unsoften'd terrors	P
And Mirth is madness and but smiles to slay	Q
And Hope is nothing but a false delay	Q
The sick man's lightning half an hour ere death	R
When Faintness the last mortal birth of Pain	S
And apathy of limb the dull beginning	T
Of the cold staggering race which Death is winning	T
Steals vein by vein and pulse by pulse away	Q
Yet so relieving the o'er tortured clay	Q
To him appears renewal of his breath	R
And freedom the mere numbness of his chain	S
And then he talks of life and how again	U
He feels his spirit soaring albeit weak	V
And of the fresher air which he would seek	V
And as he whispers knows not that he gasps	W
That his thin finger feels not what it clasps	W
And so the film comes o'er him and the dizzy	W
Chamber swims round and round and shadows busy	W
At which he vainly catches flit and gleam	X
Till the last rattle chokes the strangled scream	X
And all is ice and blackness and the earth	Y
That which it was the moment ere our birth	Y
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II	A
There is no hope for nations Search the page	Z
Of many thousand years the daily scene	A2
The flow and ebb of each recurring age	Z
The everlasting to be which hath been	B2
Hath taught us nought or little still we lean	A2
On things that rot beneath our weight and wear	C2
Our strength away in wrestling with the air	C2
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For 'tis our nature strikes us down the beasts	W
Slaughter 'd in hourly hecatombs for feasts	W
Are of as high an order they must go	D2
Even where their driver goads them though to slaughter	E2
Ye men who pour your blood for kings as water	E2
What have they given your children in return	F2
A heritage of servitude and woes	W
A blindfold bondage where your hire is blows	W
What do not yet the red hot ploughshares burn	F2
O'er which you stumble in a false ordeal	G2
And deem this proof of loyalty the real	G2
Kissing the hand that guides you to your scars	W
And glorying as you tread the glowing bars	W
All that your sires have left you all that Time	E
Bequeaths of free and History of sublime	E
Spring from a different theme Ye see and read	H2
Admire and sigh and then succumb and bleed	I2
Save the few spirits who despite of all	J2
And worse than all the sudden crimes engender'd	K2
By the down thundering of the prison wall	J2
And thirst to swallow the sweet waters tender'd	K2
Gushing from Freedom's fountains when the crowd	L2
Madden'd with centuries of drought are loud	L2
And trample on each other to obtain	S
The cup which brings oblivion of a chain	S
Heavy and sore in which long yoked they plough'd	L2
The sand or if there sprung the yellow grain	S
'Twos not for them their necks were too much how'd	L2
And their dead palates chew'd the cud of pain	S
Yes the few spirits who despite of deeds	W
Which they abhor confound not with the cause	W
Those momentary starts from Nature's laws	W
Which like the pestilence and earthquake smite	L2
But for a term then pass and leave the earth	Y
With all her seasons to repair the blight	L2
With a few summers and again put forth	M2
Cities and generations fair when free	W
For Tyranny there blooms no bud for thee	W
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III	A
Glory and Empire once upon these towers	W
With Freedom godlike Triad how ye sate	L2
The league of mightiest nations in those hours	W
When Venice was an envy might abate	L2
But did not quench her spirit in her fate	L2
All were enwrapp'd the feasted monarchs knew	N2
And loved their hostess nor could learn to hate	L2
Although they humbled with the kingly few	N2
The many felt for from all days and climes	W
She was the voyager's worship even her crimes	W
Were of the softer order born of Love	O2
She drank no blood nor fatten'd on the dead	L2
But gladden'd where her harmless conquests spread	L2
For these restored the Cross that from above	O2
Hallow'd her sheltering banners which incessant	L2
Flew between earth and the unholy Crescent	L2
Which if it waned and dwindled Earth may thank	P2
The city it has clothed in chains which clank	P2
Now creaking in the ears of those who owe	D2
The name of Freedom to her glorious struggles	W
Yet she but shares with them a common woe	D2
And call'd the 'kingdom' of a conquering foe	D2
But knows what all and most of all we know	D2
With what set gilded terms a tyrant juggles	W
The name of Commonwealth is past and gone	Q2
O'er the three fractions of the groaning globe	R2
Venice is crush'd and Holland deigns to own	S2
A sceptre and endures the purple robe	R2
If the free Switzer yet bestrides alone	S2
His chainless mountains 'tis but for a time	E
For tyranny of late is cunning grown	S2
And in its own good season tramples down	T2
The sparkles of our ashes One great clime	E
Whose vigorous offspring by dividing ocean	J
Are kept apart and nursed in the devotion	J
Of Freedom which their fathers fought for and	L2
Bequeath'd a heritage of heart and hand	L2
And proud distinction from each other land	L2
Whose sons must bow them at a monarch's motion	J
As if his senseless sceptre were a wand	L2
Full of the magic of exploded science	W
Still one great clime in full and free de fiance	W
Yet rears her crest unconquer'd and sublime	E
Above the far Atlantic She has taught	L2
Her Esau brethren that the haughty flag	U2
The floating fence of Albion's feebler crag	U2
May strike to those whose red right hands have bought	L2
Rights cheaply earn'd with blood Stilt still for ever	E2
Better though each man's life blood were a river	E2
That it should flow and overflow than creep	D
Through thousand lazy channels in our veins	W
Damm'd like the dull canal with locks and chains	W
And moving as a sick man in his sleep	D
Three paces and then faltering better be	W
Where the extinguish'd Spartans still are free	W
In their proud charnel of Thermopylae	J2
Than stagnate in our marsh or o'er the deep	D
Fly and one current to the ocean add	L2
One spirit to the souls our fathers had	L2
One freeman more America to thee	W

George Gordon Byron

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