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Yet Freedom yet thy banner torn but flying	A
Streams like a thunder storm against the wind BYRON	B
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I	-
A glorious people vibrated again	C
The lightning of the nations Liberty	D
From heart to heart from tower to tower o'er Spain	E
Scattering contagious fire into the sky	-
Gleamed My soul spurned the chains of its dismay	F
And in the rapid plumes of song	G
Clothed itself sublime and strong	G
As a young eagle soars the morning clouds among	H
Hovering inverse o'er its accustomed prey	F
Till from its station in the Heaven of fame	I
The Spirit's whirlwind rapped it and the ray	F
Of the remotest sphere of living flame	I
Which paves the void was from behind it flung	H
As foam from a ship's swiftness when there came	I
A voice out of the deep I will record the same	I
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II	-
The Sun and the serenest Moon sprang forth	J
The burning stars of the abyss were hurled	K
Into the depths of Heaven The daedal earth	L
That island in the ocean of the world	K
Hung in its cloud of all sustaining air	M
But this divinest universe	N
Was yet a chaos and a curse	N
For thou wert not but power from worst producing worse	N
The spirit of the beasts was kindled there	M
And of the birds and of the watery forms	O
And there was war among them and despair	M
Within them raging without truce or terms	P
The bosom of their violated nurse	N
Groaned for beasts warred on beasts and worms on worms	P
And men on men each heart was as a hell of storms	O
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III	-
Man the imperial shape then multiplied	Q
His generations under the pavilion	B
Of the Sun s throne palace and pyramid	R
Temple and prison to many a swarming million	B
Were as to mountain wolves their ragged caves	S
This human living multitude	T
Was savage cunning blind and rude	T
For thou wert not but o er the populous solitude	T
Like one fierce cloud over a waste of waves	S
Hung Tyranny beneath sate deified	Q
The sister pest congregator of slaves	S
Into the shadow of her pinions wide	Q
Anarchs and priests who feed on gold and blood	U
Till with the stain their inmost souls are dyed	Q
Drove the astonished herds of men from every side	Q
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IV	V
The nodding promontories and blue isles	W
And cloud like mountains and dividuous waves	S
Of Greece basked glorious in the open smiles	W
Of favouring Heaven from their enchanted caves	S
Prophetic echoes flung dim melody	D
On the unapprehensive wild	X
The vine the corn the olive mild	X
Grew savage yet to human use unreconciled	X
And like unfolded flowers beneath the sea	D
Like the man s thought dark in the infant s brain	E
Like aught that is which wraps what is to be	D
Art s deathless dreams lay veiled by many a vein	E
Of Parian stone and yet a speechless child	X
Verse murmured and Philosophy did strain	E
Her lidless eyes for thee when o er the Aegean main	E
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V	D
Athens arose a city such as vision	B
Builds from the purple crags and silver towers	Y
Of battlemented cloud as in derision	B
Of kingliest masonry the ocean floors	Z
Pave it the evening sky pavilions it	A2
Its portals are inhabited	U
By thunder zoned winds each head	B2
Within its cloudy wings with sun fire garlanded	B2
A divine work Athens diviner yet	B2
Gleamed with its crest of columns on the will	C2
Of man as on a mount of diamond set	B2
For thou wert and thine all creative skill	C2
Peopled with forms that mock the eternal dead	B2
In marble immortality that hill	C2
Which was thine earliest throne and latest oracle	D2
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VI	V
Within the surface of Time s fleeting river	E2
Its wrinkled image lies as then it lay	F
Immovably unquiet and for ever	E2
It trembles but it cannot pass away	F
The voices of thy bards and sages thunder	E2
With an earth awakening blast	B2
Through the caverns of the past	B2
Religion veils her eyes Oppression shrinks aghast	B2
A winged sound of joy and love and wonder	E2
Which soars where Expectation never flew	F2
Rending the veil of space and time asunder	E2
One ocean feeds the clouds and streams and dew	F2
One Sun illumines Heaven one Spirit vast	B2
With life and love makes chaos ever new	F2
As Athens doth the world with thy delight renew	F2
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VII	V
Then Rome was and from thy deep bosom fairest	B2
Like a wolf cub from a Cadmaean Maenad	B2
She drew the milk of greatness though thy dearest	B2
From that Elysian food was yet unweaned	B2
And many a deed of terrible uprightness	Z
By thy sweet love was sanctified	B2
And in thy smile and by thy side	B2
Saintly Camillus lived and firm Atilius died	B2
But when tears stained thy robe of vestal whiteness	Z
And gold profaned thy Capitolian throne	G2
Thou didst desert with spirit winged lightness	Z
The senate of the tyrants they sunk prone	G2
Slaves of one tyrant Palatinus sighed	B2
Faint echoes of Ionian song that tone	G2
Thou didst delay to hear lamenting to disown	G2
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VIII	V
From what Hyrcanian glen or frozen hill	C2
Or piny promontory of the Arctic main	E
Or utmost islet inaccessible	D2
Didst thou lament the ruin of thy reign	E
Teaching the woods and waves and desert rocks	Z
And every Naiad s ice cold urn	H2
To talk in echoes sad and stern	H2
Of that sublimest lore which man had dared unlearn	H2
For neither didst thou watch the wizard flocks	Z
Of the Scald's dreams nor haunt the Druid's sleep	I2
What if the tears rained through thy shattered locks	Z
Were quickly dried for thou didst groan not weep	I2
When from its sea of death to kill and burn	H2
The Galilean serpent forth did creep	I2
And made thy world an undistinguishable heap	I2
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IX	Z
A thousand years the Earth cried 'Where art thou '	-
And then the shadow of thy coming fell	J2
On Saxon Alfred s olive cinctured brow	K2
And many a warrior peopled citadel	J2
Like rocks which fire lifts out of the flat deep	I2
Arose in sacred Italy	D
Frowning o'er the tempestuous sea	D
Of kings and priests and slaves in tower crowned majesty	D
That multitudinous anarchy did sweep	I2
And burst around their walls like idle foam	L2
Whilst from the human spirit s deepest deep	I2
Strange melody with love and awe struck dumb	M2
Dissonant arms and Art which cannot die	B2
With divine wand traced on our earthly home	L2
Fit imagery to pave Heaven s everlasting dome	L2
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X	Z
Thou huntress swifter than the Moon thou terror	E2
Of the world s wolves thou bearer of the quiver	E2
Whose sunlike shafts pierce tempest winged Error	E2
As light may pierce the clouds when they dissever	E2
In the calm regions of the orient day	B2
Luther caught thy wakening glance	Z
Like lightning from his leaden lance	Z
Reflected it dissolved the visions of the trance	Z
In which as in a tomb the nations lay	B2
And England s prophets hailed thee as their queen	H2
In songs whose music cannot pass away	B2
Though it must flow forever not unseen	H2
Before the spirit sighted countenance	Z
Of Milton didst thou pass from the sad scene	H2
Beyond whose night he saw with a dejected mien	H2
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XI	D
The eager hours and unreluctant years	Z
As on a dawn illumined mountain stood	B2
Trampling to silence their loud hopes and fears	Z
Darkening each other with their multitude	B2
And cried aloud 'Liberty ' Indignation	H2
Answered Pity from her cave	V
Death grew pale within the grave	V
And Desolation howled to the destroyer Save	V
When like Heaven s Sun girt by the exhalation	H2
Of its own glorious light thou didst arise	Z
Chasing thy foes from nation unto nation	H2
Like shadows as if day had cloven the skies	Z
At dreaming midnight o er the western wave	V
Men started staggering with a glad surprise	Z
Under the lightnings of thine unfamiliar eyes	Z
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XII	Z
Thou Heaven of earth what spells could pall thee then	H2
In ominous eclipse a thousand years	Z
Bred from the slime of deep Oppression s den	H2
Dyed all thy liquid light with blood and tears	Z
Till thy sweet stars could weep the stain away	B2
How like Bacchanals of blood	B2
Round France the ghastly vintage stood	B2
Destruction's sceptred slaves and Folly s mitred brood	B2
When one like them but mightier far than they	B2
The Anarch of thine own bewildered powers	Z
Rose armies mingled in obscure array	B2
Like clouds with clouds darkening the sacred bowers	Z
Of serene Heaven He by the past pursued	B2
Rests with those dead but unforgotten hours	Z
Whose ghosts scare victor kings in their ancestral towers	Z
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XIII	Z
England yet sleeps was she not cal	N2